Top scientist condemns #Covid19 ‘lack of leadership’ and demands international #vaccination
He’s right, you know: Sir Jeremy Farrar quit Sage so he could tell you the government is wrong about Covid-19.
Isn’t it funny how scientists instantly start singing a different song, the instant they stop being employed by the government?
Sir Jeremy Farrar quit the Tory government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) last month.
Now he is joining the growing number of people calling for vaccines to be supplied internationally, rather than being rationed according to which countries can pay.
He accused rich countries of taking “a very blinkered domestic focus, lulled into thinking that the worst of the pandemic was behind us”.
“The longer this virus continues to spread in largely unvaccinated populations globally, the more likely it is that a variant that can overcome our vaccines and treatments will emerge,” he wrote. “If that happens, we could be close to square one.
“This political drift and lack of leadership is prolonging the pandemic for everyone, with governments unwilling to really address inequitable access to the vaccines, tests and treatment.
“There have been wonderful speeches, warm words, but not the actions needed to ensure fair access to what we know works and would bring the pandemic to a close.”
He’s right, of course – and the emergence of the Omicron variant has proved it.
It is believed to have developed in a country that has not been broadly vaccinated: Covid is much more likely to mutate in places where vaccination is low and transmission is high, while immunisation greatly reduces the change of new variants emerging.
So providing the vaccine to poorer countries is a matter of survival, not profit.
But just try telling that to Boris Johnson after he spent the last – almost – two years helping Tory donors and friends profiteer from Covid!
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