China’s health care infrastructure and kill millions of its citizens. China has successfully suppressed the virus within its population by way of aggressive travel restrictions, tracking and tracing, and forced quarantine measures. These will have to remain in place until their population has achieved artificial herd immunity. Until then, the specter of Covid-19 looms and threatens even those countries who have kept case numbers and deaths very low.

I don’t think we should be sending them our vaccines, but they should and will actively pursue artificial herd immunity to this virus.