WHO Recommends AstraZeneca Vaccine, but Questions Complicate Rollout

We’re going to see the same cycle again, Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells VOA.”The rich countries will run to the front of the line for the new variant vaccines. And countries will be left behind again as petri dishes for new variants to develop.”

Vaccine Nationalism: Why Hoarding COVID Jabs May Prolong Pandemic

Professor Brook Baker tells Al Jazeera that inoculating the population of a single country will not protect them if it means that the virus continues to spread elsewhere unchecked: “You’re not protecting your citizens; you’re giving your citizens an illusion that you’re protecting them.”

Boston Fed Advisory Council Member Has a Goal: Help Others “Exit Poverty in a Generation”

There’s no grand idea that will end poverty,” says Betty Francisco ’98, general counsel of Compass Working Capital and a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Community Development Advisory Council. “But rather a collection of ideas, solutions and players in ecosystems that work cohesively and collaboratively around achieving racial equity outcomes. That’s how we can begin breaking the cycle of poverty.”

Vaccine Tourism Stretches States’ Supplies

If there’s not a lot of transparency and trust in the system, in its fairness and equity, then there are always going to be some people to game the system, creating a vicious cycle of inequity, Professor Wendy Parmet tells Axios.