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A Single Shocking Statistic Reveals Why Global Herd Immunity Is Out of Reach MARIA DE JESUS, THE CONVERSATION 23 JUNE 2021 In the race between infection and injection, injection has lost.   I am a scholar of global health who specializes in health care inequities. Using a data set on vaccine distribution compiled by the Global Health Innovation Center's Launch and Scale Speedometer at Duke University in the United States, I analyzed what the global vaccine access gap means for the world. (The Conversation/CC-BY-ND) A global health crisis Supply is not the main reason some countries are ab...

Global public health experts Lisha McCormick, Marion Subah, Eloise Todd and Nahashon Aluoka, discuss why world leaders must commit to a global roadmap to deliver vaccines at the G7 Leadership Summit.

consensus among member states. The European Commission said it would begin discussions on waivers but Germany, home to BioNTech, the firm that created the vaccine being marketed by Pfizer, said it opposed a waiver because “the protection of the intellectual property is a source of innovation and must remain so”. However, the Indian government has taken a different line domestically: At a hearing in India’s Supreme Court this month, the court asked the government whether it intended to issue any compulsory licenses to companies to manufacture drugs like remdesivir that are being used f...

Read more about Patent waver for Covid vaccine without tech transfer won't speed up supply on Business Standard. Intellectual property rights (IPR) on drugs and vaccine formulae give creators an exclusive right over inventions for a certain period of time, and prevent pharmaceutical companies from making it.

These countries ordered most vaccine, but many aren't using it quickly By lovemoney staff of Lovemoney | Countries buying up the most vaccine Many countries have acknowledged the importance of donating vaccine doses in the global fight against COVID-19, and just this week America announced it is giving 60 million doses of its Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine supply to other countries. In fact, the World Health Organization's COVAX initiative was created to try to make sure that vaccines are being distributed fairly among rich and poor countries, and it plans to distribute two billion vaccine d...