A good op piece in the Times about the need to keep vaccine development going, but I really dislike the framing of the issue as some sort of global competitive sport (eg 'foreign rivals'). This kind of zero sum thinking about public health is why we're still in this mess in 2023.
"But as a third pandemic winter begins in the United States, its vaccine-making effort has lost steam. Efforts to test and produce next-generation Covid vaccines are bogged down by bureaucratic problems and funding shortfalls. Foreign rivals have raced ahead in approving long-awaited nasal-spray vaccines, including one invented in St. Louis"
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/health/covid-nasal-vaccines-warp-speed.html
@enirenberg You may be right - but it's a depressing thought (and down the line it leads to more restrictions on global distribution).
@cyrilpedia I don‘t think these two are connected at all. It‘s completely reasonable for as many countries as possible to develop (e.g.) nasal vaccines for a new pandemic / new wave. That‘s even better for everyone since there are more suppliers if it does come down to this. That has nothing to do in working together more to combat the actual pandemic itself (which tbh will never happen).
@cyrilpedia agree that that framing is unproductive but honestly it might appeal to the constant need for some American politicians to feel like the US is better than everyone else