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More than 50% of the world is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to Our World in Data.

Celebrating Community Blue Devils Return After a long 18 months of distancing and hybrid learning, Duke University students returned to campus for a celebration to kick off the new academic year.

The newly-discovered Omicron variant has highlighted the unequal distribution of vaccines in some of the most vulnerable groups in many lower-income countries. CTVNews.ca has created a series of charts illustrating this inequity and the challenges in its global distribution.

IN the race between infection and injection, injection has lost. Public...

Global herd immunity remains out of reach– 99% of people in poor countries are unvaccinated Public health experts estimate that approximately 70% of the world’s 7.9 billion people must be fully vaccinated to end the Covid-19 pandemic. Maria De Jesus 26 June, 2021 1:29 pm IST Text Size: A+ I am a scholar of global health who specializes in health care inequities. Using a data set on vaccine distribution compiled by the Global Health Innovation Center...

A Single Shocking Statistic Reveals Why Global Herd Immunity Is Out of Reach MARIA DE JESUS, THE CONVERSATION 23 JUNE 2021 In the race between infection and injection, injection has lost.   I am a scholar of global health who specializes in health care inequities. Using a data set on vaccine distribution compiled by the Global Health Innovation Centers Launch and Scale Speedometer at Duke University in the United States, I analyzed what the global vaccine access gap means for the world. (Th...

Global public health experts Lisha McCormick, Marion Subah, Eloise Todd and Nahashon Aluoka, discuss why world leaders must commit to a global roadmap to deliver vaccines at the G7 Leadership Summit.

consensus among member states. The European Commission said it would begin discussions on waivers but Germany, home to BioNTech, the firm that created the vaccine being marketed by Pfizer, said it opposed a waiver because “the protection of the intellectual property is a source of innovation and must remain so”. However, the Indian government has taken a different line domestically: At a hearing in India’s Supreme Court this month, the court asked the government whether it intended to i...

Read more about Patent waver for Covid vaccine without tech transfer wont speed up supply on Business Standard. Intellectual property rights (IPR) on drugs and vaccine formulae give creators an exclusive right over inventions for a certain period of time, and prevent pharmaceutical companies from making it.

These countries ordered most vaccine, but many arent using it quickly By lovemoney staff of Lovemoney | Countries buying up the most vaccine Many countries have acknowledged the importance of donating vaccine doses in the global fight against COVID-19, and just this week America announced it is giving 60 million doses of its Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine supply to other countries. In fact, the World Health Organizations COVAX initiative was created to try to make sure that vaccines are being ...