A FAIR Investigation of Vaccine Infrastructure

Ravi Gupta on Vaccine Infrastructure

by FAIR

November 20, 2020

This week on CounterSpin: It isn’t only the death toll—more than a million people around the world, a quarter of a million in the US alone—but the emerging list of other harms from the coronavirus, to the lungs, heart and brain, that make a vaccine seem like the light at the end of a very dark tunnel. 

(photo: Christian Emmer)

Whether our need would be so desperate had we taken strong, early societal measures is a different question; whether we should imagine vaccines as coming like cavalry to save us from human-impact-driven illness going forward, still another.

 

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There’s enough to consider just looking at the infrastructure around vaccines—their efficient production and equitable distribution—as it is. Ravi Gupta is a physician and clinician scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. 

 

He wrote recently for Boston Review about the urgent need to “reimagine” our vaccine infrastructure; we talk to him about why.