1/ Some great infographics in this piece for those interested in the challenge of vaccinating the world. A quick thread...
telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
2/ First, the extent to which vaccine manufacturers overestimated early supply is horribly marked - and explains many a dashed expectation...
3/ On the other hand, we will - by the end of the year - have enough vaccine for everyone on Earth. No small achievement...
4/ But - and it's a big but - distribution is currently terribly skewed towards richer nations. We have not just bought up most of what exists but we have taken out 1st options on most future supply....
5/ This, combined with the crisis in India, has left #COVAX without the stocks it desperately needs to vaccinate the developing world's health workers and most vulnerable...
6/ As scientists including @JeremyFarrar and Sir John Bell argue in the @telegraph today, world leaders need to FIX THIS FAST or the pandemic will not stop anytime soon. They specify 5 reforms and the first is sharing doses... telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
7/ So who is sharing most currently as a proportion of what they have? It's embarrassing but of the big producers, it's China followed by the EU. Most others are far behind...
8/ All countries need to share doses but all eyes will be on the US at the G7 later this month. It has vaccinated much of its population and holds the key to accelerating the rollout to much of the rest of the world...
9/ Will Joe Biden @POTUS turn on the mRNA taps and start exporting vaccine in bulk to the developing world? Or will he continue to leave it to China to try and save the world with lesser vaccines? We'll have to wait and see....
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