The world’s biggest Covid-19 mistake
July 12, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray In times to come, I believe, the courtroom of history may hand down the verdict that the world's biggest mistake when confronted by the Covid-19 pandemic was the decision of rich nations and pharmaceutical companies not to share their vaccines and patents quickly and freely with poor countries. Not just for ethical reasons, but for pragmatic ones too. The pragmatic reason is that large populations of people, exposed to an entirely new virus, create perfect conditions for that virus to mutate. As Charles Darwin would have told you, most…
