Dem Rep. Jake Auchincloss Calls for ‘Marshall Plan’ for Global Vaccination

‘We need global scale vaccine production and distribution’

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AUCHINCLOSS: "We need global-scale vaccine production and distribution. It needs to be headquartered here in the United States. We’re on track as a country to reach herd immunity by this summer, but huge swaths of the rest of the world are not on track to reach that until 2023, and that’s the tinder for more variants to emerge that could become the next pandemic. We need to be taking the lead as a country on a Marshall plan for vaccines. That'll do three things for us. One, it will prevent those variants from emerging. We’re already dealing with the Brazil variant now, for example, we don’t want to see others coming. Two, it will create good jobs here in the United States in high-growing industries like biomanufacturing. And, three, it’s going to prevent China from using vaccine diplomacy to extract concessions in our own backyard and in developing countries throughout the world. This is an opportunity for the United States to reclaim moral leadership throughout the world after four years of depredations under Donald Trump."

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