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Vaccine inequities are hindering COVID-19 response
World leaders are warning that current vaccines could be useless if lower-income countries are not able to inoculate a majority of their population and stall progress in the fight against COVID-19.
An Afghan health worker receiving a dose of the Indian version of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
Global leaders warned at a World Bank–IMF meeting that the lack of access to vaccines in the developing world and low-income nations would not just exacerbate global financial and health inequalities but would hinder progress already made in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Months before the vaccines were made available to the general public, wealthier nations were able to secure millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine this has not been the case for the rest of the world. The United States in mid-August was able to secure and preorder around 800 million doses of vaccines prior to development and the United Kingdom was able to purc