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| | | | |  | | By Erin Banco | | | This is a special edition of Pulse highlighting our exclusive Covid investigation. We'll be back in your inboxes Monday for your regularly-scheduled Pulse.
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Illustration by Dan Page for POLITICO | When Covid-19 struck, the governments of the world weren't prepared. So four non-governmental global health organizations began making plans for a life-or-death struggle against a virus that would know no boundaries:
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropies in the world
- Gavi, the global vaccine organization that Gates helped to found to inoculate people in low-income nations
- Wellcome Trust, a British research foundation with a multi-billion dollar endowment had worked with the Gates Foundation in previous years
- The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, an international vaccine research and development group that Gates and Wellcome both helped to create in 2017
On Friday, we published a seven-month investigation into the steady, almost inexorable power shift from overwhelmed governments to these unelected, privately-funded groups. Armed with expertise, bolstered by contacts at the highest levels of Western nations and empowered by well-grooved relationships with drug makers, the four organizations took on roles often played by governments — but without the accountability of governments.
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| They used their clout with the World Health Organization to help create an ambitious worldwide distribution plan taking into account needy nations — though it would ultimately fail to live up to its original promises. You can read the full investigation here. | | | | Follow us on Twitter | | | | Follow us | | | | |
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