Artificial obstacles to producing Covid-19 vaccine will make billions
of people wait years to be vaccinated.
The article focuses on a side issue: given that production is
insufficient, who will get it first?
That is a distraction. There is no need for production to be so slow.
It is slow because of the artificial scarcity created by giving
businesses the power to limit production. To squabble over which
country gets vaccine this year, since there isn't enough, is to
legitimize the artificial scarcity.
Let's resist being distracted. As James Love says, let's make them
produce enough vaccine so that we can all get it first!