"Will Corporate Greed Prolong the Pandemic?": Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on Global Vaccine Equity
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5P9WT)
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says global vaccine inequity endangers everyone on the planet, including those in rich countries, and says the best way to solve the problem is to drastically increase production of COVID-19 vaccines. As long as the disease is festering someplace in the world, there are going to be mutations," Stiglitz says. So it's in our own self-interest that we get the disease controlled everywhere."