Heads of global organizations call for vaccine equality
World leaders must make a “new commitment” to a more equal distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to bring the pandemic under control, the heads of four major global organizations said yesterday. Their joint rallying cry comes as concerns rise that vaccine inequality between wealthy and poor nations is further complicating and prolonging a pandemic that has killed more than 3.5 million people globally. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, the heads of the WHO, World Bank, IMF and WTO blamed the gap in vaccination programs for the emergence of virus variants that have fueled fresh outbreaks in t...