It Would Cost $50B to Vaccinate the World, OECD Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-01/vaccinations-key-for-recovery-would-only-cost-50-billion-oecd

by erehweb • 5 years ago

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jbverschoor2• 5 years ago

And $8B to cure world hunger

tata71• 5 years ago

Up from $6B just weeks ago!(?)

jbverschoor2• 5 years ago

Oh I thought I heard 8. Could be eur/usd. But you’re probably right

Ekaros• 5 years ago

For how long period? That sounds very cheap. Like bit over dollar per person... Fraction a cent a day...

saeranv• 5 years ago

It's not 8B divided by the total world population, it's 8B divided by fraction of world population that is hungry. I don't know what that fraction is, but it doesn't work out to $1 per person.

ouid• 5 years ago

I assume that you are makin ga joke or a reference to something becuase this number is absurd. That's a bag of chips per person.

Engineering-MD• 5 years ago

I assume it refers to investment needed to create a system which would make hunger hit areas able to feed themselves, which would cure hunger world wide over the long term.

midjji• 5 years ago

Ah the blissful ignorance of optimists assuming people would voluntarily do the obviously right thing...

Mountain_Skies• 5 years ago

Yes, it's shameful that deer, minks, and other mammals that spread the virus refuse to line up for their shots.

ipspam• 5 years ago

Obviously right thing? Perhaps that hubris should be saved until the results are in.....

It takes very very little government intervention to indirectly kill 1 out of 200 people. And when you move to life years lost, the government has to kill less than 1 in some absurdly high number like a 1000.

cyanydeez• 5 years ago

even worse, most readers would think 50 billion is expensive. for the world.

pangolinplayer2• 5 years ago

and the pharma laughs all the way to the bank.

pangolinplayer2• 5 years ago

and big pharma laughs all the way to the bank.

tinus_hn• 5 years ago

So how has this been calculated, given that it is not known how many ‘boosters’ are going to be needed?

It Would Cost $50B to Vaccinate the World, OECD Says

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