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But we do not have a limited number of vaccines. At this point there has been plenty of time supply chains to produce the necessary precursors so we are limited entirely by demand. If we are distributing extra vaccines to other countries it is because we don’t want to not because we can’t or because we’re fighting over a single scarce resource.

There is no evidence that we have to choose between boosters or sending vaccines to other countries.

This is the same flawed logic that officials made when they spread doubt about the effectiveness of masks early in the pandemic, hoping to “conserve” masks for healthcare workers.

The assumption of vaccine scarcity is actually a hidden assumption made outside the expertise of those who aren’t deeply knowledgeable about vaccine supply chains.




Source? Are you suggesting that Moderna and Pfizer have factories-worth of unused capacity sitting around idle?


Source? Everything I’ve read talks about that decision being very real.




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