Billions In Low-Income Nations Will Not Receive Their Covid-19 Vaccine Anytime Soon

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Unless there’s a significant increase in production and distribution, billions will not receive the vaccine in 2021, most of which are located in low-income countries, which will result in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of unnecessary deaths.

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A closer inspection of the vaccine tracker shows a stunning, yet unsurprising trend for vaccine administration. The vast majority of vaccines distributed have been in global economic powers like the United States, China, and Europe. Countries in the global south, which tend to be lower-income countries, distributed much fewer doses. Covid-19 is not absent in these countries, nor are their governments refusing to distribute vaccines.

.” Especially as South Africa is being ravaged by a new, more infectious SARS-CoV-2 variant, the need to accelerate vaccine distribution is at an all-time high. We know these variants mutate rapidly. Early indications suggest that the new South African variant may be able tothose who have previously had Covid-19, suggesting they may mutate to a point where they are immune-resistant to neutralizing antibodies and, potentially, vaccines.

With the UK and South African variants spreading like wildfire and more new variants beginning to emerge, the global community needs to come together to get everyone vaccinated as quickly as possible. So long as there is a chance the current vaccines will protect against the virus, they should be distributed. If variants become resistant to vaccines, pharmaceutical companies will have to start working on the new strains, as they do with the influenza vaccines every year.

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