Analysis: 'If your country develops the vaccine before anyone else, immediately exporting it to another country is not a vote-winner,' one expert said.
"This debate builds on a long-standing question about nationalism versus global responsibility," said Nancy Kass, a professor and the deputy director for public health at Johns Hopkins University's Berman Institute of Bioethics."And we happen to be in an extraordinarily nationalistic period right now in the United States."
"The social value of a safe and effective vaccine is almost incalculable — we are talking about trillions of dollars," said Frank Lichtenberg, a Columbia Business School professor who has spent much of his career estimating how much new medicines are worth. Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky has said his company is committed to coming up with a not-for-profit vaccine that is"available and affordable globally as quickly as possible."Carl Recine / Reuters file
But the Department of Health and Human Services was clear in a statement March 30 that domestic use would take priority, and that the initial goal was to make a"COVID-19 vaccine available for emergency use in the United States in early 2021."
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