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Image credit: Arun Sankar Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. It’s no secret why poor countries don’t have as many vaccines as rich countries. “There’s really just a scarcity of doses,” says Kate Elder, senior vaccine policy adviser at Doctors Without Borders’ Access Campaign. The question is, how do you fix it? In the U.S., more than 1 out of every 5 residents is fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The U.S. and several other wealth...

It's no secret why poor countries don't have as many vaccines as rich countries. "There's really just a scarcity of doses," says Kate Elder, senior vaccine policy adviser at Doctors Without Borders' Access Campaign. The question is, how do you fix it? In the U.S., more than 1 out of every 5 residents is fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The U.S. and several other wealthy nations, including Canada and many European Union member states, are on track to vaccinate most of their populations by mid-2022, according to a report from The Economist. But elsewhere in the world, vaccination rates are m...

Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images People wait for their turn to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a government hospital in Chennai, India, on Friday. Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images It's no secret why poor countries don't have as many vaccines as rich countries. "There's really just a scarcity of doses," says Kate Elder, senior vaccine policy adviser at Doctors Without Borders' Access Campaign. The question is, how do you fix it? In the U.S., more than 1 out of every 5 residents is fully vaccina...

US President Joe Biden. | Mandel Ngan/ AFP A group of over 170 world leaders and Nobel Prize winners have urged United States President Joe Biden to support a waiver proposing to suspend rules of intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to boost global vaccination rates. India and South Africa had moved this proposal at the World Trade Organization in October. The letter, released to the media on Wednesday, said that the World Trade Organization’s waiver was important to bring an end to the Covid-19 pandemic. It said that the vaccine and related t...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The United States has now fully vaccinated more than 1 of 5 residents against COVID-19, but the distribution of coronavirus vaccine is a different story elsewhere in the world. The entire continent of Africa, for example, has received just 2% of the world's vaccine doses so far. Some countries are bracing to wait months or even years before they have enough supply to fully vaccinate their populations. Here to discuss is senior vaccine policy adviser at Doctors Without Borders, Kate Elder. Kate Elder, welcome to the show. KATE ELDER: Hi, Mary Louise. Thanks for having ...