The global Covid-19 vaccine gap exposed #shorts
Guardian, 22 Dec 2021
The UK, Canada, Germany and other EU states have supported a deliberate policy to withhold vaccines from the poorest countries in the world, and defended an immoral and unethical economic system which places big pharma patents ahead of millions of lives, writes former director at the World Health Organization, Anthony Costello.
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"Millions more people will die from Covid-19 in the coming year, and most will be unvaccinated. The vaccines that could save millions of lives are not reaching the poor majority of the world’s population.
"The contrast is stark: the current share of people fully vaccinated in high, upper-middle income, lower-middle income and low income countries is 69%, 68%, 30% and 3.5% respectively."
This map shows the huge inequality in the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines across the globe. It shows the number of doses administered per 100 people over time until 8 December this year.
Vaccines help stem transmission and reduce the number of host bodies available for further mutations to take place. Being a very globalised planet with people travelling from around the world all the time, only vaccinating certain countries is a roll of the dice again and again on variants, as Omicron makes clear.
It didn’t have to be this way. Around 12bn doses are forecast to be produced by the end of this year. Had a principle of vaccine equity governed the global rollout, this could have comfortably vaccinated every adult in the world.
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"Millions more people will die from Covid-19 in the coming year, and most will be unvaccinated. The vaccines that could save millions of lives are not reaching the poor majority of the world’s population.
"The contrast is stark: the current share of people fully vaccinated in high, upper-middle income, lower-middle income and low income countries is 69%, 68%, 30% and 3.5% respectively."
This map shows the huge inequality in the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines across the globe. It shows the number of doses administered per 100 people over time until 8 December this year.
Vaccines help stem transmission and reduce the number of host bodies available for further mutations to take place. Being a very globalised planet with people travelling from around the world all the time, only vaccinating certain countries is a roll of the dice again and again on variants, as Omicron makes clear.
It didn’t have to be this way. Around 12bn doses are forecast to be produced by the end of this year. Had a principle of vaccine equity governed the global rollout, this could have comfortably vaccinated every adult in the world.
Tap the link in bio - or our stories - to read Costello's full piece on why the richest countries should be tried in an international court.
Graphic via the @Guardian Australia data team.
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