The United States was a world leader in immunizations. Now he is lagging behind.

Among other bits of diplomatic cajoling, the Biden administration is expected to try to motivate India to lift its controls. “One of the missing pieces is leadership and accountability,” Krishna Udiakumar, director of Duke University’s Center for Global Health Innovation, told my colleagues. “If the global response to the coronavirus remains rudderless and fragmented, without real tools of accountability, all the world’s well-meaning commitments will have little impact.”