Omicron Variant Highlights Risks of Low Vaccination Rates in Poor Countries

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The wide gap in vaccination rates between wealthy nations and lower-income countries helped open the door to the rise of the Omicron coronavirus variant, public-health officials say

highly-mutated variant of the coronavirus virus

in southern Africa this week highlights the risk to global public health posed by large, unvaccinated populations in the developing world, where countries have struggled to get immunizations and the virus is spreading and evolving. Overall, just 7% of people in Africa are fully vaccinated, compared with 42% of the global population, according to Our World In Data, a project based at Oxford University. In Europe and the U.S., vaccination levels are 67% and 58%.

 

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No mention of the hypothesis that populations with untreated HIV/AIDS can serve as reservoirs in which coronaviruses can reproduce (and mutate) over more generations. Countries with excess vaccine supply might do well to redirect it to areas with untreated HIV/AIDS.

White, people are still trying make Blackpeople the face of this disease....half of all diseases are zoominc...

the masks are the only thing keeping this fictional virus alive. WSJ knows Covid19 is about world war mainly between capitalist china and the US

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