We knew ahead of time what would happen if we took this nationalistic approach, but we did it anyway, and we are now living with the consequences of that.

Andrea Taylor

This is the major issue : There was never a plan,( and) there still isn't a plan at a global level, we're not good at dealing with global crises as a world -- we don't really have the infrastructure, or leadership, or accountability.

It's feast or famine at the moment --( countries) get nothing for three months, and all of a sudden they get millions of doses, supply has to come in a predictable, reliable manner.

There was never a plan, and there still isn't a plan, at a global level, it isn't just pockets -- huge swathes of the world have unacceptably low vaccine coverage.

There's a very real risk that what we're doing now is discouraging them from coming forward with the next one, because there will be a next one.

Some kind of binding legal agreement that countries sign onto could give us something of a coordinated global plan, which is what we're lacking now, we're never going to make a successful case on altruism.

It would make all the difference, if we could make it happen.

There's a real lack of clear data about what's happening on the country level across sub-Saharan Africa. We need more clarity on that, so we can understand the scope of the problem.

They put a lot of eggs in the Serum Institute basket and Serum Institute was a strategic error given that what has happened in India was entirely predictable. It should not have caught any of us by surprise.

We knew what was ahead if we took the road of vaccine inequality, we took that road anyways and now here we are. There aren't any fixes in the short term.