Pandemic Perspective

  Approximately $25 billion to provide vaccines to these countries by "scaling-up production in the United States and in regional manufacturing centers around the world." This could vaccinate billions of people, many of whom live in countries with current vaccination rates as low as 2 or 3 percent. 

$25 billion is 1/280th—or roughly one-third of one percent—of the estimated $7 trillion we've spent on lethal and counterproductive wars that have killed more than a million innocent civilians. 

A Harvard study estimates the USA is on track to spend $2 trillion on the Afghanistan war alone. 

$25 billion could be used to save lives instead of taking them around the world.

The current US defense budget is $753 billion. That's 30 times more expensive than the $25 billion proposed pandemic plan.

Opinion | Trillions Spent on Disastrous Afghan War vs. Just $25 Billion to Vaccinate World's Poor | Richard Eskow (commondreams.org)