“We Are Hoarding”: Why the US Can’t Donate Corona-Vaccines to Countries in Need

Oh, please, cry me a river. There's always a law to bomb another country, spy on the RoW, hack ally infrastructure, renege international treaties or put on some tariffs on imports from friendly countries, but somehow a minor contractual clause grinds to a halt export of vital medicine supplies during a pandemic.

As a summary, the various vaccine manufacturers got the federal government to agree not to ship them outside the US as a condition of purchase, because then there would be additional liability issues the manufacturers would be exposed to.

This seems like an easy fix. Coordinate with those other country's governments pass a similar indemnification law for the COVID-19 vaccine and the price for the US organizing that and the other governments doing that will be the manufacturers allowing the US to ship its doses to them.

>into the vacuum rushed Russia and China, who began currying favor around the world by distributing their own vaccines—of possibly dubious quality

Oh American arrogance, you can't mention China/Russia without trash-talking them. Trials show the vaccines are safe and effective: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

I hope at the least somehow US can export some raw materials to AZN/SII in India to help scale up vaccine production, currently that is a huge bottleneck