Under way and then to get it out to countries that need it. i would say that in 2021, moderna provided about 25% of our 825 million doses of the vaccine to low and middle income countries and we ve committed to provide another billion doses this year. i think what is beginning to emerge, and it s very interesting, that the african union, for example, actually declined to take the option for the second quarter, saying that they actually now have enough vaccines applied to be able to immunise about the % of africans in africa, so i think what we are seeing is a change, a transition from supply constrained now to logistics, where we can actually get vaccines out of airports, out of ports, drastically into towns and villages and then into arms. that will be the struggle for all of us, i think, this year and something thatis think, this year and something that is a world, we have to focus on.
The developing world? as you rightly pointed out, there are huge parts of the world that are currently seeing another wave of coronavirus infection, specifically omicron, but many in the developing world haven t even had theirfirst shots. is the development of boosters coming at the expense of providing those first shots to people in the developing world ? look, i think 2021 was a difficult year for all of the vaccine producers and manufacturers. it was a difficult year to get supply under way and to get it out to countries that need it. i would say that in 2021, madera not provided about 25%, i would say that in 2021, moderna provided about 25%, about 825 million palaces of the vaccine to low and middle income countries. we have committed to providing another billion doses this year. i think what s beginning to emerge and it s very interesting that the african union, for example, actually declined to take the option
Bases to india and for the impact to actually have an impact to actually have an impact on the ground and local manufacturing to be used. qm. manufacturing to be used. 0k, archana shukla, manufacturing to be used. 0k, archana shukla, thank you for joining us from mumbai. readers purchased 825 million copies of print books in the us in 2021 and analysts believe young people posting about books on social media played a big role in the sales. tiktok doesn t seem like the obvious place for books, but the bestsellers list is being influenced by it. the #booktok hashtag has attracted 40.4 billions of views thanks to tikbook influencers on tiktok and is creating new bestsellers and shaping the publishing worldin under a minute, users film books they want you to read and record time lapses of themselves reading or show their reactions to a moment in the novel, ideally with emotion. and the book retailers have noticed. so how is booktok changing what we read?
Malnutrition. 71,000 are severe cases. i went to a malnutrition area and there are really, really sick children, hungry, in pain. their mothers are terrified about what might happen to them. mothers and children are having to walk long distances for days in search of food and water. it is causing cholera and acute die rhe diarrhea. 200 people have died from col cholera. the u.n. s world program, the pfp, is active in that part of the world. can it reach everyone? the u.n. is active here. we are work with the u.n. but we need $825 million. only half of that,ibl i believe
At the president s budget level, $825 million, that was voted down. listen you know they started this yesterday and it s all funding. well obviously it s not about funding. the train was going twice the speed limit. adequate funds were there. no money has been cut from rail safety. all right. we are back with our panel. let s start off with amtrak. we are getting updates from ntsb who was running the train at the time. there may have been a rock or shot fired at the train. a lot of things developing minute by minute. something that s not developing is well established in reading so much about government assessment about amtrak s going. i had no idea because i ride all the time it loses so much money. it s never broken even. it s always lost money. they predicted that it was going to break even in three years. it always loses money. it will never be profitable.