Can the World Learn From South Africaâs Vaccine Trials?
Vaccine trials are often done in wealthier countries. Scientists say the South Africa experience proves the value of trials in the global south.
Vaccine trials are underway at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto, South Africa. Pharmaceutical companies conduct relatively few trials in poorer countries.Credit...Joao Silva/The New York Times
Published March 13, 2021Updated April 7, 2021
In a year that has seesawed between astonishing gains and brutal setbacks on Covid-19, few moments were as sobering as the revelation last month that a coronavirus variant in South Africa was dampening the effect of one of the worldâs most potent vaccines.