“It is frustrating,” Sood, who got vaccinated in February, said. “I feel sad that in the Third World, they wanted those shots and cannot get them.”
In India,
there’s a shortage of everything from beds to oxygen to medical personnel. When the pandemic broke out, India didn’t experience a large wave of coronavirus deaths and exported most of the vaccine supply it produced to other countries. Now,
just 12% of its population is vaccinated and
thousands of people are dying each day.
Countries like Vietnam and Nigeria have only been able to vaccinate 1% of their population. Others, like Nepal, are extending lockdowns.
Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama have the lowest vaccination rates in the U.S and doses are going to waste. Other countries, like India, are still struggling with high deaths and low vaccine supply.