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| Shamiso Faith Varaidzo |
The world is facing a vaccine apartheid – billions of people are unprotected facing the threat of illness and death from this cruel disease. Billions are also facing hunger and destitution as economies are locked down and grind to a halt. Billions are facing the huge social impacts, including children without an education and women facing increased violence and many more hours of unpaid care work. Insufficient vaccine supply combined with rich country hoarding of doses mean most of the developing world faces this killer disease with minimal access to protection. While public money funded the vaccine research, development and manufacturing, pharmaceutical corporations have a monopoly on how many doses are produced, who gets them and what price they pay. These corporations get to decide who lives and who dies. This is entirely self-defeating. The virus is mutating all the time. The majority of epidemiologists surveyed by the People’s Vaccine Alliance believe it could be a year or less before our current vaccines are rendered largely ineffective. At the same time, the cost to the global economy of failing to vaccinate the world is estimated to be $9 trillion dollars. |
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