From my diary of March 17, 2020:

CureVac In Germany: Trump's Failed Takeover Bid

In a moment of global crisis, the worst of human kind outs itself ... or society can come together to fight a common enemy. The ultra-narcist in the leader of America came to the forefront: buy the German vaccine and we'll market as ::

FOR AMERICA ONLY!

"We've got the BEST doctors, scientists, hospitals ... we're doing a great job. Very early I closed to borders to China ... saved thousands of lives!"

Donald Trump greift nach deutscher Impfstoff-Firma | Die Welt - 5 Marz 2020 |

The EU Commission took the route of multilateralism ...

'Vaccine nationalism' delays WHO's struggling Covax scheme | FT - Sept. 2, 2020 |

The European Commission said this week it would offer €400m in guarantees to Covax to help supply vaccines to low and middle income countries. Both the commission and the WHO said the exact terms of the EU's relationship with Covax were still being worked out. The WHO also said Germany had joined Covax.

Covax has struggled to convince high income countries to use the facility for their own domestic vaccine procurement. Rich nations including the US, Japan and the UK have done their own private deals to secure doses instead.

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The WHO has warned countries about the long-term risks of relying on bilateral procurement.

"We have two choices: vaccine nationalism, where a lot of people are vaccinated in a handful of countries, leaving the world's majority unprotected; or vaccine multilateralism, where we protect at-risk populations in all countries and keep our economies working," Mariângela Simão, the WHO's assistant director-general for access to medicines, told the FT.

WHO emergency COVID-19 vaccine listing aims to lift access in poor countries | Reuters - Jan. 1, 2021 |

"This is a small world now. A village, a global village. And we need to help one another. It's only through solidarity and unity that we can defeat this pandemic. It's not through a 'me first' attitude."

-@WHO Director-General @DrTedros today. #COVID19 #ACTogether #VaccinEquity pic.twitter.com/Tk7kTWubbH

— Global Health Strategies (@GHS) January 29, 2021