Starting with vaccines, Covid-19 is pushing governments toward global cooperation

The event is to support GAVI (the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations), an international partnership created to help low- and middle-income governments provide vaccines for their populations at a subsidized cost. GAVI, whose budget is funded every five years, is seeking $7.4 billion to carry on its program until 2025, and the renewal could not have fallen at a more appropriate time: There may never have been another moment when vaccines where this much of a priority for every government. Among the leaders attending are Justin Trudeau of Canada, Shinzo Abe of Japan, Erna Solberg of Norway, Giuseppe Conte of Italy, Boris Johnson of the UK, Sahle-Work Zewde of Ethiopia, and Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh.