Name: The COVID-19 vaccine rollout highlights global inequality
Uploaded: 2021-05-26
Duration: 5 min 23 s
Description: Poorer nations might not get vaccinated until 2023.

Poorer nations might not get vaccinated until 2023.

The COVID-19 vaccine rollout highlights global inequality

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wildly uneven and unfair. That's how the describes the distribution of Covid vaccines around the world. Only about 2% of the world's vaccine so far have been administered on the african continent. As countries around the world rush to get their citizens vaccinated Covid 19 vaccines remain out of reach for many living in the world's poorest countries, according to predictions. High income countries like U. S. U. K. And most of you are expecting to vaccinate the majority of the citizens. By the end of 2021 all of these countries have already signed purchase deals with drug makers during the early development stage. Well before any data showed if the vaccines are safe or effective, Middle-income countries won't be able to vaccinate majority of the citizens until 2022. Other than buying vaccines from manufacturers, some of these countries will choose an alternative methods to secure more doses. One approach will be by signing manufacturing agreements if the country could produce vaccines domestically. Another way will be by posting clinical trials. If the country had the necessary resources, such as an information system to gather and process the data. However low-income countries and neither capacity will be left out. More than 85 developing nations will have to wait until 2023 before they can start vaccinating majority of their citizens. These countries will largely rely on pro vax to receive their vaccines. Kovacs is a global initiative designed to ensure fair access to the COVID-19 vaccine. It's a partnership between the rural health Organization, The Coalition for epidemic preparedness innovation and Gabby Kovacs aims to deliver two billion doses by the end of 2021. But in order to provide those as to poor countries, Kovacs needs funding support from public and private sectors. Today, I'm announcing the United States Is making a $2 billion Kovacs With the promise of initial $2 billion, there's others to step up as well. Unfortunately, by the time funds made their way to kovacs, the group was lost in line to request for vaccine doses, Kovacs has so far secured around 1.6 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines, that's roughly around 18% of the world's current supply. While high income countries managed to secure more than half, some even have enough vaccines to provide their citizens with multiple doses, anticipating a vaccine surplus in wealthy nations In December of 2020, kovacs announced a plan to allow countries to donate vaccines to the global alliance. In April 2021, France became the first developed nations to donate vaccines to kovac. The pandemic has also brought back a long term debate over intellectual property rights. In October 2020, India and South Africa called on the Road Trade Organization to temporarily suspend I. P. Rights related to covid 19 until the road reach herd immunity. The proposal was backed by dozens of developing nations but it was blocked by Western nations including the U U. K. And the U. S. In mid april Over 170 former world leaders and Nobel laureate wrote to President Joe Biden urging him to support the India South Africa proposal in order to boost vaccine supply. And on May five the biden administration said it will work with the W. T. O. To negotiate a deal to wave I. P. Right on Covid 19 vaccines. But drug makers opposed to move and the framework is not about money, it's about making sure that those controls are in place. If we wave I. P. Rights altogether. The concern from my sight outside you can have a sort of dangerous free for all where scarce supplies. The desperately needs to keep that manufacturing going end up being diverted potentially to companies that don't know what they're doing and that will do more harm than good. As of mid May, Kovacs has delivered over 59 million doses, 222 countries and economies. The W. H. O. Continues to urge countries to fund and donate vaccines to the global alliance. The more transmission, the more violent and the more violent that emerge, the more likely it is that they will evade vaccines and as long as the virus continues to circulate everywhere, anywhere, people will continue to die, thread and trouble will continue to be disrupted and the economic recovery will be further delayed.