Vaccine development and distribution during the Covid pandemic has had some notable successes and some significant shortcomings.
Here's the latest issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, which has collected articles by economists concerning some of those successes and failures and their lessons for future pandemics.
Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022
Economics of Pandemic Vaccination
ARTICLES
Vaccines and the Covid-19 pandemic: lessons from failure and success
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 719–741, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac036
Expanding capacity for vaccines against Covid-19 and future pandemics: a review of economic issues
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 742–770, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac037
Covid-19 vaccine supply chains and the Defense Production Act
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 771–796, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac026
Clinical trials for accelerating pandemic vaccines
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 797–817, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac029
The race that stopped a nation: lessons from Australia’s Covid vaccine failures
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 818–832, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac028
Financing vaccine equity: funding for day-zero of the next pandemic
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 833–850, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac032
Is it possible to prepare for a pandemic?
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 851–875, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac035
Seven finance and trade lessons from Covid-19 for future pandemics
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 876–886, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac031
Covid in the nursing homes: the US experience
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 887–911, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac033
Optimal allocation of vaccines in a pandemic
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 912–923, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac027
Reserve system design for allocation of scarce medical resources in a pandemic: some perspectives from the field
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 924–940, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac034
Distributing a billion vaccines: COVAX successes, challenges, and opportunities
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 2022, Pages 941–974, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac038