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G7 nations must work together to ensure public confidence in vaccines and prevent misinformation from derailing public health efforts, the UK’s vaccine minister said on Tuesday.
Nadhim Zahawi’s remarks came on the eve of the world s first Global Vaccine Confidence Summit, which the UK is hosting on Wednesday as part of its presidency of the G7.
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Mr Zahawi said the plan for the summit was to “set ambitious goals that will help ensure trust in vaccines remains high”.
“In our interconnected world, misinformation unfortunately now travels many times faster than the virus, wth no respect for borders,” he wrote in an article for
Since then little has changed. Writing in the
Telegraph on Monday Dr Tedros, alongside the heads of three other UN bodies, said a “two-track pandemic” was developing “with richer countries having access and poorer ones being left behind.”
“Inequitable vaccine distribution is not only leaving untold millions of people vulnerable to the virus, it is also allowing deadly variants to emerge and ricochet back across the world,” they wrote.
But are things as bad as they seem? And what can be done to vaccinate the world? The hurdles – and the solutions – can be split into three broad categories: making, buying and distributing the shots. Here, we take a look at each.
Even as many rich countries free themselves from the pandemic’s grip, COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging in several regions, enabling dangerous new variants to emerge. Only universal immunization can end the cycle of misery – but achieving it will require more than a temporary waiver of vaccine manufacturers’ intellectual-property rights.
Amanda Tyndall, Edinburgh Science Festival and Creative Director EDINBURGH Science Festival has launched its programme for this year’s festival which has moved from its traditional Eastertime dates to a new summer slot between June 26 and July 11. The world’s first and still Europe’s biggest science festival will have its 33rd incarnation this year, and will be a mixture of online and “in person” events. The theme will be One World: Science Connects Us, a fact which has been demonstrated on a daily basis since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Amanda Tyndall, Edinburgh Science Festival and Creative Director, said: “It is an understatement to say that it has been an exceptional year. But if nothing else it has demonstrated just how intimately interconnected our world is, and that it is more crucial than ever that we acknowledge the value of this connectivity.