  When a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, Thomas J. Bollyky and Chad P. Bown warn in a new essay, leaders around the world are all too likely to resort to “shortsighted ‘my country first’ approaches” to manage its production and distribution—with disastrous results. “Absent an international, enforceable commitment to distribute vaccines globally in an equitable and rational way, leaders will instead prioritize taking care of their own populations over slowing the spread of COVID-19 elsewhere,” Bollyky and Bown write. “It is not too late for global cooperation to prevail over global dysfunction, but it will require states and their political leaders to change course.”
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