Jeremy Song's video: Threat of vaccinenationalism reinforces global need for better pandemic planning

As the race to people picks up across the world, the scramble for supplies becomes heated. It has the latest on the again about the of what it calls, " ". Protectionism has been a recurring theme throughout the as countries scrambled to secure valuable resources. With delays already impacting vaccine , experts warn that so-called nationalism will cause long-term harm in the global response to the . Concerns over countries limiting the export of vaccines in the name of keeping inoculations for themselves were renewed on Friday when the European Union said it would use emergency measures to restrict exports of COVID-19 vaccines from crossing the Irish border into the . The reversed course later that night following outcry in Northern Ireland, London and Dublin — but the situation raised fears of vaccine delays in . This is just the latest example of [export controls] being used in a way that is not helpful for solving the global dimensions of this pandemic that we all face," Hoffman said, citing former U.S. Trump's attempt to prevent 3M from honouring its Canadian deals for N95 masks in April. director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that vaccine nationalism could exacerbate inequalities lower-income countries already face in terms of acquiring doses.