procured from covax to be donated back to covax so that they could be redistributed. we�*ve mentioned africa�*s lagging vaccination rates. half of the countries on the continent have vaccinated less than 2% of their population. here�*s an infectious diseases epidemiologist in south africa on why. i think fundamentally our vaccine distribution system is broken. you cannot have the situation where the most important tool we have against covid—19 is being decided in terms of who gets it, when they get it, how many doses they get. those decisions are being made by private pharmaceutical companies, and so they are giving preference to their preferred market. and so even if poorer countries place orders, they are buying vaccines, not asking for it to be donated, they are pushed to the back of the queue, and so too is covax. every time covax wants doses,