Will the U.S. public support donating COVID-19 vaccines to low- and middle-income countries
The pandemic affects every country, but not every country has equal access to the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines. Recent estimates show that high-income countries—which have just one-fifth of the worldwide adult population—have purchased quite half the world's total vaccine doses, leading to disparities for low- and middle-income countries. A new study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University investigates a key question: Will is that the U.S. population support donating a part of its COVID-19 vaccine stockpile to less prosperous countries? "COVID-19 may be a true global pandemic that has touched every nation on Earth. Borders closed, economic consequences and a fantastic level of human suffering, with now quite half 1,000,000 people that have died of COVID within the U.S. and lots of more worldwide," said lead author Jeanine Guidry, Ph.D., a professor within the Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture within the College of Humanities and Sciences and dir...