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COVAX, an international initiative tasked with ensuring more equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, aims to redress this imbalance by securing deals that send shots to low-income countries free of charge. (Pexels photo)
Lopsided distribution will cost lives, ding the global economy and perpetuate the pandemic
Months before the first COVID-19 vaccine was even approved, wealthy nations scrambled to secure hundreds of millions of advance doses for their citizens. By the end of 2020, Canada bought up 338 million doses, enough to inoculate their population four times over. The United Kingdom snagged enough to cover a population three times its size. The United States reserved over 1.2 billion doses, and has already vaccinated about 14 percent of its residents.
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The COVID-19 vaccine brings optimism at a bleak time, but post-vaccination fears about what’s safe persist By Ryan Blethen, The Seattle Times
Published: February 21, 2021, 12:44pm
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3 Photos To reach her mother s second-floor room, Abby Rosenblum visits during COVID by using the bed of a pickup truck parked alongside the building. (Alan Berner/Seattle Times/TNS) Photo Gallery
SEATTLE The coronavirus pandemic has stolen a precious year from Abby Rosenblum and her mother.
After the adult family home in Seattle’s Blue Ridge neighborhood where her 87-year-old mother, Anne Adams, lives barred visitors last spring because of COVID-19, Rosenblum relied on the bed of a pickup truck to get to a high enough point from where she could see her mother through a window.
Securing a COVID-19 vaccination appointment has proven to be a challenge for many of the older adults who are eligible to be inoculated for a multitude of reasons.