GLOBAL COOPERATION AND THE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE

 The world is so connected in many ways. No country produces all the things that they need, therefore each country needs each other to develop and progress. That's basically globalization. Globalization has made it possible for countries to develop in the past and still develop currently. Like every good innovation, globalizations has its benefits and costs. Globalization has benefits like alliances between countries, higher standards of living across the world, lower mortality rates from diseases and infections, technological development and so many other benefits. Due to globalization, problems that occur in a country cannot be contained in a particular space as we have seen with the coronavirus and other pandemics that have happened in the past.  

The same way globalization caused the virus to spread, I believe globalization will favor the distribution of vaccines. The production of the vaccine though has been turned into a competition by these top countries so they could monopolize the market. Instead of hearing news like "China stole Coronavirus vaccine Data" I believe that news should be heard about two or more countries collaborating to come up with a vaccine as the saying goes that 'two heads is better than one'

As I said earlier globalization has made it possible for countries to form alliances with each other. When countries form alliances they are able to make deals that are to their advantage especially when the leaders of these countries are on good terms. For example if the US creates the coronavirus vaccine, countries that have an alliance with the US will most likely have access to the vaccine before another country with no alliance. Also when leaders of different countries are in good terms new deals surrounding the distribution vaccine can be agreed.

World Organizations have been formed to help the less developed and underdeveloped countries that do not have access to the same opportunities as the developed countries. Organizations that center around distributing vaccinations, dispensing drugs, allocating funds to the countries that need them. As a result of this, underdeveloped countries can have access to the coronavirus vaccine.