Unequal distribution of vaccines has been an indisputable fact in the past. Records of the past indicate the confiscation of vaccine by high income countries. Similarly, in this pandemic, the developed and high-income countries have faired well in the procurement and delivery of the vaccine to ...
Schlegelmilch thinks theBiden-Harris administration's push to buy more vaccines, to increase production through the use of the Defense Production Act, and to deliver support to state and local governments have significantly accelerated the vaccine distribution process. "Biden set the goal of having 10...
“Ethical allocation of scarce vaccine doses: The Priority-Equality protocol” (joint with J. García-Segarra and M. Ginés-Vilar) shows that the allocation of COVID vaccines violated the ethical principles of priority and equality, and explains how we could have ...
Herbert did not clarify whether Utah will expedite the licensing and permitting processes as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had requested. The ramped up distribution timeline has raised concerns among public health experts that the vaccine’s approval may be drive...
Federal officials say the first shipments of Pfizer's vaccine will be staggered, arriving in 145 distribution centers Monday, with an additional 425 sites getting shipments Tuesday, and the remaining 66 on Wednesday. The vaccine, co-developed by German partner BioNTech, is being doled out based ...
In Europe, the European Commission is setting up a proposal to restrict COVID-19 vaccine exports amid frustration over delays in deliveries of AstraZeneca's vaccine and other supply problems. "Most developing countries will not have widespread access to the shots before 2023 at t...
Does the COVID-19 vaccine increase your risk for heart problems? Up to30% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 present heart problems, according to the CDC. About one in every 6,000 teenagers receiving a COVID-19 vaccine have presented with rare heart inflammation cases; these cases have...
White House chief of staff Ron Klain said the nation also faces distribution problems because the Trump administration, which started the program, did not have a clear plan. "The process of distributing the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals, out into the comm...
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“wiggle room”. For example, if governments impose regulations on health damaging products rather than merely encourage individuals to practice healthy behaviors, the resource distribution will be of less influence. We argue that a national vaccine program should serve as a prototype of a more just...