WHO says vaccine booster programs will prolong Covid crisis

Booster programs in rich countries are not the problem, insufficient deployment of resources (which can include necessary IP) to scale out production and distribution to poorer countries is the problem.

The former does not require and is not the reason for the latter.

It makes sense to criticize rich countries for not distributing more vaccines to poorer ones.

It makes no sense to claim that the crisis will be ‘prolonged’ unless you can define an endpoint.

I am not aware that the WHO has defined an endpoint to the ‘covid crisis’. If I’m wrong, please point me to their definition.

Therefore this is a valid criticism mixed in with irresponsible logic. Exactly the kind of political statement that undermines the legitimacy of the WHO.

Basically the argument is those boosters should be used as 1st doses in poor counties, so we don't get another delta(India) Omicron(South Africa). The WHO was late to call it a pandemic, when it was clearly one. And realistically they need to start helping these poor countries build out their own medical capabilities to produce vaccines. The 20th century operation model doesn't work with 7 billion people.

I am quite sure that not sending enough vaccines is not the problem in Africa.

https://www.euronews.com/2021/12/22/nigeria-destroys-around-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-24/s-africa-...

Providing vaccines is just one part of the solution.

Instead of wining and again trying to destroy the credibility of science and doctors (like happened with masks), WHO should step up and help to deploy vaccines in Africa.

Similar point to "why did we vaccinate children in wealthy countries before old people in third world countries?"