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“We will not be limited by the corrupt WHO and China,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement.
Instead, he adds, the United States should engage internationally with its partners to fight the coronavirus.
Bill Gates during a conference in France last year. He and his wife Melinda are behind the foundation that organizes the vaccine collaboration.
Photo: Ludovic Marin / LUDOVIC MARIN
It is the World Health Organization (WHO), together with the Bill and Melinda Gates GAVI Foundation, that coordinates the work of developing a vaccine and distributing it so that as many people as possible around the world have access to it.
The initiative is called “Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access” (Covax)
The Washington Post learns that there were several in President Donald Trump’s administration who originally wanted to participate.
Many of America’s traditional allies, including the EU and Japan, are involved in Covax’s cooperation, but the White House ultimately made it clear that the United States does not want any cooperation with the WHO.
Trump has said that he believes the UN is too influenced by China in its fight against the coronavirus.
Trump announced earlier this year that he was withdrawing the United States from the WHO.
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But the United States is also putting itself at risk by breaking with international cooperation. This eliminates the possibility of accessing the vaccine from the large group of researchers under the Covax umbrella.
“The United States plays a lot when it chooses’ alone,” Lawrence Gostin told the Washington Post, a professor of global health at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
In July, Donald Trump visited a research center in Morrisville, North Carolina, that is trying to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus.
Photo: JIM WATSON / AFP
The United States must now rely solely on its own bilateral vaccine supply agreements.
But administration sources told the Washington Post that the US leadership believes the country has enough vaccine candidates under development at US drug companies and research institutions for the country to meet its needs.
Although the United States is withdrawing from international cooperation to distribute new corona vaccines, the country remains a significant financial contributor to the Gates Gavi Foundation, which coordinates this work.
