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Doctors Without Borders Implores US, EU to Stop Blocking Vaccine Patent Waiver
A Kenyan woman receives the first injection of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine during the launch of the vaccination campaign for 5000 frontline workers in the tourism and hospitality sector in Nairobi County at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 21, 2021.
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The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday implored the United States, European Union member nations, and other rich countries to immediately end their opposition to South Africa and India’s patent waiver proposal, which would enable the mass production of generic coronavirus vaccines to meet the developing world’s dire needs.
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It’s no secret why poor countries don’t have as many vaccines as rich countries.
“There’s really just a scarcity of doses,” says Kate Elder, senior vaccine policy adviser at Doctors Without Borders’ Access Campaign. The question is, how do you fix it?
In the U.S., more than 1 out of every 5 residents is fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The U.S. and several other wealthy nations, including Canada and many European Union member states, are on track to vaccinate most of their populations by mid-2022, according to a report from
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It s no secret why poor countries don t have as many vaccines as rich countries. There s really just a scarcity of doses, says Kate Elder, senior vaccine policy adviser at Doctors Without Borders Access Campaign. The question is, how do you fix it?
In the U.S., more than 1 out of every 5 residents is fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The U.S. and several other wealthy nations, including Canada and many European Union member states, are on track to vaccinate most of their populations by mid-2022, according to a report from
The Economist.
But elsewhere in the world, vaccination rates are much lower. The entire continent of Africa, for example, has administered just 2% of the world s vaccine doses so far. Some poor nations including Haiti have yet to receive a single vaccine dose.