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What Would It Take to Vaccinate the Whole World? Letâs Take a Look.
Big-power muscle flexing helps explain much of the worldâs vaccine inequities, but there s another reason behind insufficient doses: The challenge of making them is unprecedented.
A vaccination center in Bangkok.Credit.Adam Dean for The New York Times
May 3, 2021Updated 3:08 p.m. ET
More than 600 million people worldwide have been at least partially vaccinated against Covid-19 â meaning that more than seven billion still have not. It is a striking achievement in the shadow of a staggering challenge.
Half of all the doses delivered so far have gone into the arms of people in countries with one-seventh of the worldâs people, primarily the United States and European nations. Dozens of countries, particularly in Africa, have barely started their inoculation campaigns.