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We Need a Better Game Plan to Reach Global Herd Immunity
The spread of COVID-19 has wreaked havoc, with countless lives lost, economies severely compromised, and health care systems put under unprecedented stress. It has also brought to light—and exacerbated—grave inequalities between the rich and poor countries of the world.
Mass vaccination could bring about economic recovery and resuscitate markets after the devastating effects of lockdown measures taken to mitigate the coronavirus’s spread. Yet vaccine distribution has also thrown a harsh light on the economic inequalities between developed and developing countries—not only but especially the nations of Africa. Richer countries have stockpiled vaccines, and some have procured enough…
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Is Covax finally going to vaccinate the world?
The global vaccination initiative has faced setbacks. Could a recent surge in doses foretell a better year ahead?
America’s Vaccine Nationalism Isn’t Working
The longer it takes for the United States to lead a global response, the more the risks compound.
COVID-19 Vaccine Nationalism Will Cost Lives Worldwide
The decision of whom to vaccinate globally has pitted so-called “vaccine nationalists,” who defend the right of nations to vaccinate their own people first by any means, against “globalists” who want more equitable approaches to vaccine allocation—approaches in which access to the vaccine is on the basis of need, rather than on the ability to pay.
How political polarization broke America’s vaccine campaign
The Covid-19 epidemic in the United States risks becoming a tale of “two Americas,” as Anthony Fauci warned in June: a nation where regions with higher vaccination rates are able to beat back the coronavirus, while those with lower vaccination rates continue to see cases and deaths. At face value, it’s a division between those who are vaccinated and those who are unvaccinated. But, increasingly, it’s also a division between Democrats and Republicans — as vaccination has ended up on one of the biggest dividing lines in the US, political polarization.
Inside the Campaign to Force Big Pharma to Make COVID Vaccines Available to Everyone
The People's Vaccine campaign wants pharmaceutical companies to drop their patents to help distribute jabs to the billions of people across the world who remain unvaccinated.
The US was a world leader in vaccination. What went wrong?
How most of Europe caught up to — and then surpassed — the US in their Covid-19 vaccine drives.
Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World
While vaccine doses remain relatively scarce globally, most countries have focused their early vaccination efforts on priority groups like the clinically vulnerable; people in their 60s, 70s and older; and front-line workers, like doctors and nurses.
U.S. Covid-19 Vaccine Donation to Boost Developing World’s Pandemic Fight
Plan to give 500 million Pfizer shots to poor countries puts pressure on G-7 nations to step up sharing.
Why a Grand Plan to Vaccinate the World Against Covid Unraveled
The multibillion-dollar Covax program was supposed to be a model for vaccinating humanity, but has hit problem after problem.
Why Covax, the fund to vaccinate the world, is struggling
“People keep asking me, ‘What keeps you awake at night? The variants?’ Christ, no! It’s human behavior — the unwillingness to share!” said Bruce Aylward, a senior adviser at the World Health Organization (WHO) who works on Covax.
How close is the world to herd immunity to COVID-19?
Ensuring global vaccine access is the only way to end this global crisis, because if the vaccine isn’t everywhere, this pandemic isn’t going anywhere.
A Guide to Global COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts
Only a year after the new coronavirus emerged, distribution of the first vaccines to protect against it began. But production challenges, vaccine nationalism, and new virus strains are all presenting hurdles.
Challenges in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide
The newness of the mRNA vaccines and the speed at which the COVID-19 vaccines were produced has caused anxiety in some quarters
COVAX Obstacles Threaten Africa’s Vaccine Rollout
Underfunding and India’s export restrictions mean some African citizens may have to wait until 2023 to get their shot.
Even the world’s most successful vaccination programs are hitting hurdles
Immunizing a nation is hard. With countries that made early gains in their mass vaccination programs now hitting hurdles as those programs drag on, governments are having to face an awkward question: What if the early part was the easy part?
Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access: A Snapshot of Inequality
Ensuring widespread global access to COVID-19 vaccines, which is necessary for preventing cases and deaths and contributing to global population immunity, is a critical challenge and one that could threaten the ability to control the pandemic.
How Chile built one of the world’s most successful vaccination campaigns
The Latin American country bet big on vaccines and relied on a strong primary health care network. Now, a quarter of the country has had at least one shot.
How Is The COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Going In Your State?
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India Is The World's Biggest Vaccine Maker. Yet Only 4% Of Indians Are Vaccinated
That's a surprising position for the country that's home to the world's biggest vaccine manufacturer, the Serum Institute of India. It has long churned out more vaccine doses by volume than any other company, even before the coronavirus pandemic.
Israel outpaced the world in vaccinations. Now it’s seeing the results
There’s still a long way to go, but also a reason for hope.
Reasons to be optimistic about U.S. vaccine rollout
Much has been made of the stumbles and hiccups of America’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, with justified frustration at the process, but the numbers don’t lie. American optimism, hard work and creativity have kept the program well on track compared to many nations around the world. As the military steps up to aid in the distribution in the coming days, we can look forward to even greater success to come.
Ten million reasons to vaccinate the world
\Our model reveals the true course of the pandemic. Here is what to do next.
Vaccine inequality: how rich countries cut Covid deaths as poorer fall behind
Developed countries are seeing the benefits of quickly vaccinating their populations, but concerns remain about the unequal share of global vaccine supplies
What America’s Vaccination Campaign Proves to the World
The U.S. stumbled early in the pandemic, but the vaccine rollout could reboot the country’s image.
Why is the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccine campaign faltering?
Moving vaccines into arms in this country of 1.3 billion means reaching remote, difficult-to-access regions and tackling the profound divides between the lower and upper classes.
We Need a Better Game Plan to Reach Global Herd Immunity
The world is still vaccinating the few while neglecting the many.
COVAX
CEPI, Gavi and the WHO have launched COVAX to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines and end the acute phase of the pandemic by the end of 2021.
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