Wealthy disease
Covid-19 is a disease of the rich. It was spread around the world by people with money enough to afford international air travel. Then, when the pandemic was declared and isolation and lockdowns were imposed, it was a situation in which those people who could afford it stayed at home while the poor served them by staying on the job and by delivering things to their affluent houses. Working from home and studying from home using Zoom to attend online lessons with school teachers was great for those people privileged enough to take advantage of it. When face masks, soap and alcohol-based hand sanitizers became the thing, only those who had access to them had that option. Now that vaccines are being approved, distributed and administered, the rich nations have already pre-bought, or reserved all the dosages expected to be produced for the next couple of years, virtually cutting out poorer nations entirely. It won't matter if poorer nations are offered free medicine, or medicine on the cheap (at cost). Those medicines simply won't be available because the U.S. has pre-bought 400 million doses of vaccine. Japan has pre-bought 200 million. Canada and the UK have probably done the same, despite the fact that only 70 million doses or fewer were forecast to be ready by the end of 2020. The pharmaceutical market is already drained for the next few years. It’s interesting.
Or not.