The scarcity of Covid-19 vaccines in many countries around the globe puts everyone in the world in peril. That’s because as long as large populations around the world remain unvaccinated, variants of the virus will continue to emerge, including some that might be able to evade existing vaccines. Therefore, the only way to end the pandemic is global vaccination. However, economic models of vaccine manufacturing indicate many countries won’t be likely to achieve widespread immunization until the end of 2022.
4 Strategies to Boost the Global Supply of Covid-19 Vaccines
The catastrophe in India highlights the need for governments and international organizations to coordinate more effectively.
May 06, 2021
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Summary.
Long before the first Covid-19 vaccines were authorized, it was known that equitably supplying them to populations around the world would be an enormous challenge. Now the failure to do so is readily apparent, with the catastrophe in India as a case in point. The world needs to now regroup in order to greatly accelerate the manufacture and distribution of vaccine supplies. This article offers four tactics to do so.