The ability to get a #COVID19 vaccine largely depends on whether you live in a wealthy country.
I wrote about why we must urgently address inequities in the vaccine rollout worldwide 👇
Here’s a 🧵 on how imbalanced vaccine access is and why it matters:
link.medium.com/3fA81Lo4Ydb
I wrote about why we must urgently address inequities in the vaccine rollout worldwide 👇
Here’s a 🧵 on how imbalanced vaccine access is and why it matters:
link.medium.com/3fA81Lo4Ydb
This graphic from @TheEconomist shows a breakdown of doses ordered per adult worldwide, revealing a massive imbalance. Many countries have ordered way more vaccine than people eligible to receive it.
“Half of the world’s supply has been reserved for just 15% of its population”
“Half of the world’s supply has been reserved for just 15% of its population”
And this @nytimes graphic tracking vaccination rates by continent shows how inequitable the rollout has been so far.
In North America, ~10 doses have been administered for every 100 people.
That’s almost 5x the rate of South America and 50x that of Africa.
In North America, ~10 doses have been administered for every 100 people.
That’s almost 5x the rate of South America and 50x that of Africa.
And this @TheEconomist graphic shows when widespread vaccination will be achieved:
The US says 600 million doses available here this summer, enough for everyone that wants to be vaccinated.
But Latin America and almost all of sub-Saharan Africa will wait until late 2022 or 2023
The US says 600 million doses available here this summer, enough for everyone that wants to be vaccinated.
But Latin America and almost all of sub-Saharan Africa will wait until late 2022 or 2023
This article by @kakape outlines the impact an inequitable vaccine rollout will have around the world.
Multiple physicians died from Covid in Mozambique “which only has about eight doctors per 100,000 people, compared with almost 300 in the United States.
sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/u…
Multiple physicians died from Covid in Mozambique “which only has about eight doctors per 100,000 people, compared with almost 300 in the United States.
sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/u…
And @MSF calls for wealthy nations to do more:
“To ensure equitable access to vaccines, wealthy nations that have immunized their frontline health care workers and high-risk groups should share with COVAX their surpluses for low & middle-income countries.
doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/new…
“To ensure equitable access to vaccines, wealthy nations that have immunized their frontline health care workers and high-risk groups should share with COVAX their surpluses for low & middle-income countries.
doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/new…
Highlighting how ‘wildly uneven and unfair’ the global vaccine rollout has been to date, UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres released this statement on the urgent need for a Global Vaccination Plan...
https://twitter.com/antonioguterres/status/1362086909611237381
There was this plea from @WHO Director-General @DrTedros who last month issued this statement:
“I need to be blunt: the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure – and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries”
“I need to be blunt: the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure – and the price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries”
https://twitter.com/drtedros/status/1362335396382793730
We must remember that COVID19 will not be the last pandemic we face, and we will only be safe when we are all safe.
An equitable vaccine rollout isn’t just the right thing to do. It will make us all much safer as well.
Read more & follow me on @Medium 👇
link.medium.com/yUxml2d5Ydb
An equitable vaccine rollout isn’t just the right thing to do. It will make us all much safer as well.
Read more & follow me on @Medium 👇
link.medium.com/yUxml2d5Ydb
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