How we can close the vaccine gap much faster next time
Today, 46% of the world's population has received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. It's hard to overstate what a remarkable achievement this is. Humanity has never made and distributed a vaccine for a disease faster than it did for Covid-19. It accomplished in 18 months something that used to take a decade or more.
But within this amazing success, there is a startling disparity: Just over 2% of people in low-income countries have received any Covid-19 vaccines. And the gap will be harder to close as the world's richer governments buy up extra doses to serve as booster shots.… Seguir leyendo »