From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro.

This is the Daily.

Today, at the height of the COVID pandemic, nearly 200 countries started negotiating a plan

to ensure they did better when the next pandemic inevitably arrives.

Their deadline for that plan was last week.

My calling, a poor of a Monte revealing, explains why so far those negotiations have failed. It's Thursday, June 6th. So, Apor was something that was supposed to happen and happen right now that I think most

of us didn't even know was ever in the works hasn't happened and that's a global plan

for the next pandemic so tell us this entire story. Think back to

2021 the very worst days of COVID when we had thousands of people

dying in the US and in the rest of the world. There was just so much confusion

about whether to wear masks or not,

whether to close schools, and it was very difficult to think what any country should do.

Right.

And so in the middle of that chaos and confusion, the eagle has landed.

Carrying the hopes of a country, the first shipment of coronavirus vaccines reach Australian skies.

We did get the vaccines.

You're watching right now history being made, one of the first people in the entire country right here

to get dose number two of the Pfizer vaccine.

And all of a sudden there was this hope,

but the thing is that those vaccines were really mostly available

in the richer countries.

Parts of Asia and Latin America have recorded a spike in COVID fatalities amid medical

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