The U.S. Is Buying 500 Million Vaccine Doses for the World. It’s Not Enough.

It’s in America’s self-interest to vaccinate the world

James Surowiecki
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3 min readJun 17, 2021

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The U.S. is adding even more vaccine doses to its already-impressive stockpile, with drugmaker Moderna announcing yesterday that it had sold another 200 million doses of its mRNA Covid vaccine to the U.S., bringing total American orders of the…

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James Surowiecki
GEN
Writer for

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.