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As the Trudeau government is forced to explain delays rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, some of the world's economic and health leaders are warning of catastrophic financial consequences if poorer countries are shortchanged on vaccinations.
The leaders of the World Health Organization and others also bemoaned the long-term damage of continued vaccine nationalism if current trends continue rich countries getting a pandemic cure at a much higher rate than poorer ones.
It was a message that could provide some political cover for the Liberals, who have been widely criticized for shortfalls in deliveries of vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna while also facing international criticism for pre-buying enough doses of vaccines to cover Canada s population several times over.
Some international anti-poverty groups have also criticized Canada for planning to take delivery of 1.9 million doses from the COVAX Facility, a new international vaccine-sharing program that is primarily designed to help poor countries afford unaffordable vaccines, but also allows rich donor countries including Canada to receive vaccines.
Mediaplanet Publishes Vaccine Awareness Campaign to Combat Vaccine Hesitancy During Pandemic
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NEW YORK (PRWEB) February 05, 2021
Mediaplanet launches December print and digital campaign entitled “Vaccine Awareness.” This campaign will provide readers with a greater awareness and understanding of the process of how vaccines are made, approved, distributed, and administered. It will also serve as a platform to create solutions and initiatives to improve immunization rates in the United States and globally.
Vaccines help to prevent national and global infectious disease outbreaks and save between 2-3 million lives every year. However, many people around the globe and in the United States are not vaccinated and more than 1.5 million people die from vaccine-preventable diseases each year. Intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy was named by the World Health Organization in 2019 as one of the top ten leading threats to global health, citin
Friday, 5 February 2021, 6:55 am
COVID-19 has had a devastating social and economic impact
everywhere, but particularly in developing countries. The
absence of a comprehensive global strategy to ensure vaccine
access in low and middle-income countries threatens to
prolong the pandemic, escalating inequalities within and
between countries and delaying the global economic
recovery.
OECD Secretary-General Angel
Gurría will discuss how to ensure fair access to
vaccines and build resilience in developing countries –
two big tests for global solidarity – with
World
Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, political leaders, heads of
development agencies and civil society organisations at a
virtual debate from 12:00 to 14:00 CET on Monday 8 February.