A NEW term has appeared in the news recently: “vaccine nationalism.” The term could refer to the conduct of the former US president Donald Trump issuing an executive order extending his America First policy to the distribution of vaccines manufactured by Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and other US companies. More recently, the president of the European Commission in castigating AstraZeneca for the delayed delivery of its vaccines to European Union members, threatened to ban the exportation of its vaccines outside the EU. The company explained that it had to fill first the prior order of the United Kingdom, the country of its partner, the University of Oxford, and now no longer part of the EU.

Moreover, the ingredients of the vaccine come from supply chains in different parts of the world. (Actually, very few vaccines can be claimed to have been solely developed in one country.)

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