Mark Gilbert , Columnist

Latest Covid Mutation Highlights Vaccine Inequity

Virus variants will continue to multiply until all nations can get hold of vaccinations.

November 26, 2021 at 3:27 PM UTC

Mark Gilbert is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering asset management. A former London bureau chief for Bloomberg News, he is author of “Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable.”

Vaccines for all.
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B.1.1.529 is the latest SARS-CoV-2 variant to emerge during the pandemic. Likely to be dubbed the Nu strain under World Health Organization naming protocols, it could prove to be more transmissible and better able to evade prior immunity than previous strains. The smugness of rich nations that expected high local vaccination rates to free their citizens from the grip of the coronavirus looks set to backfire.