What next after the vaccine is ready ?

With hectic trials to roll out vaccine at the earliest, the major issue of global concern is its availability, accessibility and affordability to all. The term availability is meant the number of doses required to reach the global population of about 780 crores.Since a lengthy timeline is needed for such a massive production and supply, the terms accessibility and affordability assume significance since the basic law that governs the markets is the demand supply scenario ! It is said that the rich nations are in the first line.The advanced countries are pumping funds to manufacturers globally.If reports are to go by, wealthy nations have already locked up more than a billion doses of vaccines. The probable monopolisation of supply by the wealthier countries as was the situation in the swine flu pandemic seems a cause for concerns among poor nations. In the case of Covid -19,the access is important to the most needy for the safety of every one let alone ethical or humanitarian concerns !

 

More than all these things, the most important constraint is the needed data on the quality and quantity of the viral distribution across the globe at the remotest level even if some how systems are evolved for a fair distribution. So lot of ground work goes into creating this data base.Besides these, something like a “global philanthropists’ club” may be formed and approached with the central themes of “humanity” and “giving back to society” for the just job in right time.But if such a thing becomes reality, they should take up the task of pricing, procuring, and permitting the vaccine on a need basis using their own men, machinery and mechanism and in collaboration with the governments for an accelerated outreach .The economically weaker nations must not be deprived of a chance to live for want of aid !