Should global financing be the main priority for pandemic preparedness?
Nicole Lurie and colleagues1 argue that “[m]any gaps…must be bridged to establish a truly efficient and effective end-to-end R&D [research and development] preparedness and response ecosystem. Foremost among them is a global financing system”. While obviously essential, it is unlikely that global financing, in itself, will address the immoral inequity on display in the global distribution of…