Opinion: Biden’s global summit Covid-19 targets are woefully inadequate and must be corrected

As part of President Biden’s plan to address the global Covid-19 pandemic and inequitable distribution of vaccines, medicines, and tests to many parts of the world, he convened a global summit held virtually on Wednesday.

Biden has asked for endorsement of a set of targets and commitment to directly address one or more of them. These targets fall terribly short of the ambition that’s needed to stop this global pandemic. The targets also downplay the obligations of rich countries to reverse the horrific consequences of vaccine, testing, and therapeutics apartheid that they — and the biopharmaceutical industry — have engendered.

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