⁍ Economic recovery around the world could come faster if any COVID-19 vaccine is made available to all as a public good, World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

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⁍ He was speaking in an online panel discussion with members of the Aspen Security Forum in the United States moderated by the NBC network.

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⁍ ‘Vaccine nationalism is not good, it will not help us,’ he said in an allusion to the competitive scramble of nations and pharmaceutical researchers to come up with an effective vaccine.

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– The World Health Organization’s director-general has a message forVaccine nationalism: It’s “not good, it will not help us.” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in the US on Thursday, two days after he called the race for a coronavirus vaccine “unprecedented,” Reuters reports. “We must seize this moment to come together in national unity and global solidarity to control COVID-19,” he said, referring to the deadly virus. “No country will be safe until we are all safe.” He added that “sharing vaccines or sharing other tools actually helps the world to recover together. The economic recovery can be faster and the damage from COVID-19 could be less.” Tedros was speaking online with members of the Aspen Security Forum in the US moderated by the NBC network. “The economic recovery can be faster and the damage from COVID-19 could be less,” he said.Vaccine nationalism is not good, it will not help us,” he said in an allusion to the competitive scramble of nations and pharmaceutical researchers to come up with an effective vaccine and order as many doses as possible in advance. WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan, asked about a proposed Russian vaccine, told the panel that trial data was needed to ensure any vaccines are safe and effective. Ryan also said authorities should be able to demonstrate the efficacy of a coronavirus vaccine via traditional clinical trials rather than “human challenge” studies.