display
Oldenburg (dpa / lni) - Oldenburg political scientists, together with colleagues from Israel, Denmark and the USA, are starting an international study on the distribution of scarce vaccines in a pandemic.
The researchers are preparing a representative online experiment with 16,000 participants from eight countries, as the University of Oldenburg announced on Tuesday.
Above all, they were interested in how the population would decide for themselves.
"Regulating the distribution of vaccines is a global challenge for politics," said Oldenburg project manager Markus Tepe.
With such a scarce commodity and at the same time high demand, conflicts within and between countries are inevitable.
The researchers would like to know under what conditions a solidarity distribution of vaccines would be possible at all.
Because Tepes is convinced that this is “a success factor for combating future global epidemics”.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210427-99-377034 / 2