When COVAX was developed, it had big dreams and big intentions. If we had all played by the COVAX principles from the start, we'd be in a very different position from the one we are in today.
Because high-income countries such as Canada bought in to COVAX but then undermined it at the same time by procuring mass amounts of doses directly from pharmaceutical companies, we ended up with a supply constraint in the end. Ideally, we would have had a globally coordinated response to this pandemic out of the gate. Unfortunately, we're not there.
All hands on deck is pretty welcome right now. If we need to look at COVAX bilateral dose donation or anything we need to do to get to the target of vaccinating 70% of the world, we should do that at this point.
We should definitely learn lessons and try to figure out how to globally coordinate in the future, so we avoid a march of folly on a global scale like this in the future.