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On Vaccines, It’s Every Country for Itself
The race to vaccinate the world against a once-in-a-century pandemic has begun in an all-too-familiar way.
Rich nations have gobbled up nearly all the global supply of the two leading
COVID-19 vaccines through the end of 2021, leaving many middle-income countries to turn to unproven drugs developed by China and Russia while poorer states face long waits for their first doses.
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“Richer countries will be able to vaccinate . their whole populations before vulnerable groups in many developing countries get covered,” said Suerie Moon, co-director of the Global Health Center at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.