the biden administration has admitted it won t reach its self imposed target ofjuly fourth, to have 70 percent of the nation fully vaccinated. the current total is about 45% nationwide. health officials say the goal was aspirational, and helped get people jabbed regardless. and as we re about to discuss, when it comes to how america is doing by comparison, it also matters which vaccines are being used. lets take a look at four countries: israel, the united states, the seychelles, and mongolia. all four of them have vaccination rates far above the global average. in the case of the seychelles, nearly 70% of the population is fully vaccinated. but the big difference between these countries, represented by the darker shades of red, is which vaccines they used. israel and the us mainly used the pfizer and moderna jabs. but the seychelles and mongolia relied heavily on vaccines produced by china. so, when it comes to new cases, the us and israel have done rather well this week. in israel, t
pfizer and moderna jabs will be transferred if not that specific technology but technology like to get manufacturing going on the african continent, which is hugely important not just for this pandemic but future pandemics to allow countries to access vaccines. so that is the good news. the bad news is as i said, there is a surge of cases, help is needed right now, and the vaccine doses just aren t coming enough of a volume. i put the question to the head of the emergency section of the w.h.o. who must be done and is enough being done to get vaccines out. we can protect those people now with relatively small transfers of vaccine from the global supply. we can protect those vulnerable people, those frontline workers. and the fact that we haven t is a catastrophic moral failure at