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High-income countries have purchased more than half of the Covid-19 vaccine supply to date, and low-income countries, just 9 percent, according to Duke University’s Global Health Innovation Center. This is why a country like the US is close to vaccinating half its population with one dose while the rate in a place like Guinea is less than 1 percent and not budging.
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If these glaring inequities in vaccine access continue, it will take at least two years for the world’s poorest countries, which couldn’t compete for early doses of vaccines, to immunize the majority of their populations.
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