The poor nation of canada is being criticized for dipping into a vaccine pool it funded as part of an agreement to get access to a pool of vaccines intended for poor countries. This has drawn global criticism from the poors and even some leftist canadians who find trudeau to be too conversative for their liking believing that canada should wait its turn for the vaccine instead of getting ahead of the queue. This brings us to the topic of vaccine nationalism which... i don'tsee a problem with. Why would you not want to protect your countries citizens before prioritizing the rest of the world 🤔?
Where do our resident pardians stand on the issue of vaccine nationalism?
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/09/canada-coronavirus-vaccine-covax-trudeauJustin Trudeau is facing growing pressure to speed up Canada’s sluggish distribution of the coronavirus vaccine, as the country fends off accusations that it is taking supplies of the drug meant for developing countries.
The federal government drew sharp criticism last week when it announced that it would draw on Covax, a mechanism created to fairly distribute Covid-19 around the world, for its supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Canada is entitled to receive shots through the Covax program, which uses advance purchases by wealthy nations to subsidise doses for poorer countries. But it had already completed a series of direct deals with pharmaceutical companies to secure its own supply, prompting accusations of “double-dipping”.