Not Yet Desperate, Japan and South Korea Plod Toward Vaccinations
The slower pace gives the East Asian countries a chance to learn from mistakes elsewhere but also poses risks as more contagious and perhaps deadlier variants of the virus emerge.
A coronavirus vaccination drill in Kawasaki, Japan, on Wednesday. The country will begin vaccinating medical workers at the end of February.Credit.Philip Fong/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Jan. 31, 2021
And yet none of these places have begun to carry out the only solution with any hope of putting the pandemic behind them: vaccinations.
While the United States and most nations in Europe as well as the Asian behemoths China and India have begun inoculating their populations, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong have stood out by proceeding much more slowly.
As new variants of COVID-19 spread and vaccine rollout is slow around the globe, no one is safe until everyone is safe
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Covid-19 pandemic
Friday 8 January 2021, by Sharon Lerner
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla recently heaped praise on “the almost 44,000 people who selflessly raised their hands to participate in our trial.”
“Each of you has helped to bring the world one step closer to our shared goal of a potential vaccine to fight this devastating pandemic,” Bourla wrote in an open letter to volunteers who took part in Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine research, which was conducted in Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and Turkey as well as the U.S. His letter was published on November 9, the same day Pfizer announced that the vaccine was more than 90 percent effective at preventing the disease, and Bourla laid this considerable accomplishment at the feet of the medical volunteers: “You are the true heroes, and the whole world owes you a tremendous debt of gratitude.”
Boxes containing the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center in Olive Branch on Dec. 20, 2020 in Olive Branch, Miss.Photo: Paul Sancya/Pool/Getty ImagesBoxes containing the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center in Olive Branch on Dec. 20, 2020 in Olive Branch, Miss.Photo: Paul Sancya/Pool/Getty Images
World Faces Covid-19 âVaccine Apartheidâ
Even countries that hosted vaccine trials â like Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, and Turkey â will not receive adequate supplies.
December 31 2020, 2:52Â p.m.
Boxes containing the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center in Olive Branch on Dec. 20, 2020 in Olive Branch, Miss.Photo: Paul Sancya/Pool/Getty ImagesBoxes containing the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center in Olive Branch on Dec. 20, 2020 in Olive Branch, Miss.Photo: