This is what happens. We get ours (vaccines) & we forget about the pain & suffering of others. I saw this w/ AIDS in 1996, we got the drugs & people like Andrew Sullivan were writing about "when plagues end." It's not over, until it's over for everyone. 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/world/india-coronavirus-record.html

We can ask where is global solidarity, but the answer there is none. We've spent 40 years pushing globalization for markets, not so much global health. 2/

Unless we (re)build health from the ground up from the US to India as a global project, a collective task, the suffering of the past year will just repeat itself again and again, on the background of still-with-us pandemics. Malaria. TB. HIV. end/