Newsweek Expert Forum, “To Achieve Herd Immunity, We Must Address Fragile Supply Chains in the Developing World”

01 Jul Newsweek Expert Forum, “To Achieve Herd Immunity, We Must Address Fragile Supply Chains in the Developing World”

It’s a full-court press to get the COVID-19 vaccine delivered and administered around the world. But there seems to be something wrong with the playbook.

At the time of publication, the U.S. had successfully vaccinated over 50% of the population. But dozens of countries and territories haven’t hit 10%. Many aren’t even at 1%.

With numbers like these, we’re a long way away from winning the game. The Biden administration has just pledged to share 500 million new vaccine doses with the COVAX program, but even that is still just a drop in the bucket when the goal is herd immunity for the world’s billions. Because even when vaccine doses do get delivered to the developing world, they often don’t get administered.

To read more: https://www.newsweek.com/achieve-herd-immunity-we-must-address-fragile-supply-chains-developing-world-1613276