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Ending the COVID-19 pandemic can only be achieved if vaccines are available in all countries to everyone, including refugees. Here's how we get there, and what the IRC is doing right now.
The U.S., UK and the EU have each pre-purchased enough approved COVID-19 doses to vaccinate their populations more than twice over. These excess doses could vaccinate people aged 16 and over in all 20 countries on the IRC’s 2021 Emergency Watchlist. 46 million people over the age of 60 living in these countries are at immediate risk and most have little hope for a vaccine in 2021. COVID-19 vaccines are rolling out across the world, but billions of people in low- and lower-middle-income countries—including those affected by crisis—will not have access to them this year, and possibly fo...