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Scientists clash over ethics of global vaccine roll-out
International mechanisms for sharing COVID-19 vaccines have come under fire from scientists around the world for reinforcing rather than combating inequity in global health provision, and for encouraging parochial nationalist responses to the pandemic.
The ethical furore has led to finger-pointing among public health experts eager to attribute blame for shortages in the supply of vaccines at national level.
Big pharma, with the support of wealthy countries, has continued to block a move supported by the majority at the World Health Organization (WHO) to waive intellectual property rights restrictions in order to enable poorer countries to produce their own generic vaccines.
COVID-19 is three times deadlier than seasonal influenza, a new study has revealed.
The study conducted by the French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and the University of Dijon, compared data from more than 89,500 COVID-19 patients hospitalised between March and April and over 45,800 patients hospitalised for seasonal influenza between December 2018 and February 28, 2019.
The results of the study were published on Friday in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal.
It showed that the mortality rate is three times higher for COVID-19 than it is for seasonal influenza, respectively 16.9 per cent and 5.8 per cent.
Hospitalisations were meanwhile found to be twice as frequent for COVID-19 than for seasonal influenza with a greater number of COVID-19 patients admitted into intensive care 16.8 per cent vs 10.8 per cent. Stays in ICU were also lengthier with COVID-19 patients with an average of 15 days compared to 8 days for seasonal influenza.