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B RAZIL SEEMS the sort of place where vaccination against covid-19 should have taken off quickly and not just because it is suffering heavily from the disease. Impressive vaccine-making institutes Butantan in São Paulo and Fiocruz in Rio de Janeiro provide excellent support for its existing immunisation programmes. Natália Pasternak, a microbiologist at the University of São Paulo, says that if it had put its mind to it, her country could have developed a vaccine all of its own. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Even though it did not take that route, Brazil has been intimately involved in the validation of covid-19 vaccines developed elsewhere, hosting four phase-three trials in part, alas, because the high infection rate meant such trials could expect fairly quick results. One might have thought that would put the country first in line for deliveries. But as of the first week of January Brazil, a country of 212m, had just 6m doses of a covid-

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