Even as the United States announces COVID-19 boosters for higher risk individuals, vaccination rates across the world are showing large inequities. Richer countries have greater access to COVID-19 vaccines and have larger rates of vaccinated individuals compared to lower-income countries. Inequitable access to vaccines is leaving millions of people at risk to COVID-19 and is allowing new variants to spread. Further, vaccine inequality will have a lasting socio-economic impact on the lower to lower-middle income countries. A large portion of the global population needs to be vaccinated to end the pandemic, which will require a more equitable distribution of vaccines especially in lower-income countries.

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LEARN | COVID-19 booster and vaccine inequality

This Nature News article discusses the debate between giving COVID-19 booster shots (3rd doses) and global vaccine inequality. Higher income countries have a much higher rate of the population with at least one dose compared to lower income countries.

"The WHO maintains that these shots would be more useful for curbing the pandemic if they were sent to low- and lower-middle-income countries, where more than 85% of people — some 3.5 billion — haven’t had a single jab. “The priority now must be to vaccinate those who have received no doses,” said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a briefing on 12 July."

ACT | Take Action for People's Vaccine

The People's Vaccine is a growing movement urging for safe and effective vaccines to be produced rapidly and made available for everyone, in every country, free of charge. How you can support the movement: 

• Tweet politicians
• Tweet Big Pharma
• Show your support
• Help spread the word
• Act locally

GIVE | Go Give One

Sources

Fortune [Online Image]. Retrieved from https://fortune.com/2021/09/22/covid-vaccine-rate-world-us-latest-update-coronavirus-vaccines/

UN News [Text]. Retrieved from https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1100192

Our World in Data [Text]. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

Nature [Online Image and Text]. Retrieved from https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02109-1

People's Vaccine [Online Image and Text]. Received from https://peoplesvaccine.org/take-action/

Go Give One [Online Image and Text]. Retrieved from https://gogiveone.org/

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