The World Health Organization and WHO's appointed Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization have issued a worldwide COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan.

The said COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan opposed the so-called vaccine nationalism, wherein each country should prioritize its citizens.

In WHO's distribution plan, it promotes a global approach, prioritizing vaccination among the most vulnerable people everywhere.

WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the top priority must be vaccinating some people in all counties, rather than all people in some countries.

The WHO Director-General also said that vaccine nationalism would prolong the pandemic, not shorten it.

The WHO's proposed vaccine distribution method ensures that all countries will access the COVID-19 vaccine once it is available.

Participating in upper and middle-class income countries will provide funding for the vaccine accelerator program.

This with a long-term goal in mind, which is global prosperity.

Over 78 "self-financing" countries have joined the program, with Germany, Japan, and Norway.

The European Commission this week expressed an interest in participating in the program's facility.

Currently, a total of 170 nations plan to participate in the program called COVAX.

This represents about 70 percent of the world's population. However, the United States is not part of those who intend to participate.

Dr. Ruth Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H., founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute for Bioethics, said that the idea behind the COVAX facility is that the world community unite in an enlightened self-interested way to both and then distribute the vaccine.

Faden added that the countries whoa re self-financing are essentially helping themselves by helping the world.

WHO also looked at vaccination properties within each country.

Its guidelines do not include the order in which certain groups would receive the vaccine. But the plan does highlight certain vulnerable groups as a high priority for global impact.

Faden said they did not specifically say which groups should be prioritized first, second, and third.

She added that this would come later.

Faden added that there are factors that influence distribution tactics.

These factors are local transmission patterns, the available quantity of vaccine supplies, and a nation's infrastructure.

She said that these will likely change now and then, especially when a vaccine is approved as more information becomes available.

The SAGE group will then start to first work on specific groups.

However, the COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan is exemplified in the way children will be considered for vaccination.

Faden said as the vaccine becomes available, the first-line strategy may be to vaccinate teachers and school staff and not children.

Faden explained that this is because the data will be available first in adults.

Pfizer and Biontech recently said their plans to expand testing to adolescents as young as 16.

"The WHO framework is particularly notable for its emphasis on global equity, with specific objectives aimed at wealthy countries. The framework considers not only the public health impact of vaccine allocation but also the social and economic impacts," Faden was quoted in a report.

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