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Global COVID-19 vaccine inequity: Preferences for overseas vaccine donations over booster shots

As the supply of COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries (LICs) remains limited, governments of high-income countries face a trade-off between domestic containment through booster shots and global containment by helping LICs acquire first doses (“vaccine nationalism” vs “vaccine internationalism”)...

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Autores principales: Lee, Ines, Tipoe, Eileen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8920110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35308083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100447
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description As the supply of COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries (LICs) remains limited, governments of high-income countries face a trade-off between domestic containment through booster shots and global containment by helping LICs acquire first doses (“vaccine nationalism” vs “vaccine internationalism”). We provide empirical evidence on how residents of a high-income country view this ethical dilemma by surveying 1527 UK adults recruited online. Support for vaccine donations to LICs is high. On average, study participants chose to donate 65% of UK's COVID-19 vaccines, which were ordered for booster shots, to LICs. Holding all other factors constant, women, younger individuals, and those who are not fully vaccinated preferred to donate a larger percentage to LICs. The UK public's preferences for prioritizing vaccine donations over booster shot programs suggest broad support for national policies that strike a balance between domestic containment and global philanthropy.
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spelling pubmed-89201102022-03-15 Global COVID-19 vaccine inequity: Preferences for overseas vaccine donations over booster shots Lee, Ines Tipoe, Eileen Brain Behav Immun Health Short Communication As the supply of COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries (LICs) remains limited, governments of high-income countries face a trade-off between domestic containment through booster shots and global containment by helping LICs acquire first doses (“vaccine nationalism” vs “vaccine internationalism”). We provide empirical evidence on how residents of a high-income country view this ethical dilemma by surveying 1527 UK adults recruited online. Support for vaccine donations to LICs is high. On average, study participants chose to donate 65% of UK's COVID-19 vaccines, which were ordered for booster shots, to LICs. Holding all other factors constant, women, younger individuals, and those who are not fully vaccinated preferred to donate a larger percentage to LICs. The UK public's preferences for prioritizing vaccine donations over booster shot programs suggest broad support for national policies that strike a balance between domestic containment and global philanthropy. Elsevier 2022-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8920110/ /pubmed/35308083 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100447 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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