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Ilham Tohti & Nathan Law Kwun-chung COVAX 2020 was a year marked by the devastation of the still raging COVID-19 pandemic, but also by the extraordinary scientific achievement of record fast vaccine development and the prospect of the first pandemic in human history to be ended through vaccination. The risks associated with COVID-19 are unevenly distributed – by age, geographical location, socioeconomic status, and other demographic factors. Some of this unevenness is due to the biology of the virus, but some of it is a consequence of social and political inequalities. With various vaccines now approved and mass vaccination programs underway in a number of countries, these global inequalities and injustices are finding new expression in the unequal distribution of vaccines. This is not helped by the rise of “vaccine nationalism.” A Nobel Peace Prize for work to ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines would send an important signal that international cooperation

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