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🚨My latest: An in-depth feature tackling global vaccine inequality🧵
1/ This is bigger than Covid. It’s about unsafe policies & practices ensuring that profit & power stays in the Global North.
It’s about what needs to change.
#longreads #CovidVaccine nature.com/immersive/d415…
1/ This is bigger than Covid. It’s about unsafe policies & practices ensuring that profit & power stays in the Global North.
It’s about what needs to change.
#longreads #CovidVaccine nature.com/immersive/d415…
2/ COVID demonstrated the folly of relying on goodwill & the West.
Nearly 80% of people in rich countries have been vaccinated & fewer than 20% in poor countries. This is cruel AND dumb. Economies are connected. Variants spread. nature.com/immersive/d415…
Nearly 80% of people in rich countries have been vaccinated & fewer than 20% in poor countries. This is cruel AND dumb. Economies are connected. Variants spread. nature.com/immersive/d415…
3/ Covid vaccine inequality is unjust but not surprising.
Years passed before HIV drugs were available in lower income countries. Decades passed before vaccines against pneumonia were available. Cancer treatments, monoclonal antibodies...people die in these delays.
Years passed before HIV drugs were available in lower income countries. Decades passed before vaccines against pneumonia were available. Cancer treatments, monoclonal antibodies...people die in these delays.
