23 vaccines had advanced to Stage 3 clinical trials1and more than a dozen had been approved in multiple countries2. The BNT162b vaccine from Pfizer–BioNTech, for example, has been approved in about 90 countries
Worldwide, more than 1.98 billion COVID-19 single vaccine doses have been administered, according toOur World in Data, but that does not account for the two doses required in many cases nor does it always indicate where doses have been administered. With more...
Access to COVID-19 vaccines on the global scale has been drastically hindered by structural socio-economic disparities. Here, we develop a data-driven, age-stratified epidemic model to evaluate the effects of COVID-19 vaccine inequities in twenty lower middle and low income countries (LMIC) sele...
But the WHO's director general has called for the suspension of boosters until the "critical milestone" of 40% vaccine coverage has been reached across all countries. Our analysis also found significant vaccine inequality between rich and poor economies. While more than four in fiv...
This survey study compares changes in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy between Black and White individuals in the US and examines mechanisms that might help
In 2019, a new coronavirus has been identified and many efforts have been directed toward the development of effective vaccines. However, the willingness for vaccination is deeply influenced by several factors. So the aim of our review was to analyze the theme of vaccine hesitancy during COVID-...
Citation12the uncertainties created by vaccine inequality might have already initiated a vicious cycle of vaccine hesitancy (Figure 2) that will create further difficulty in controlling this pandemic. Although infection in vaccinated people may not lead to severe disease and death in most of the ...
The truth is that as a nation, the US has become a more comfortable but less equal society, and many in it have lost touch with the idea of sacrifice and of asking what the price of freedom is. If people in the US wait for a vaccine or other miracle to come to the rescue, the ...
Unequal and inequitable access to Covid-19 vaccines in low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs) was a major political, ethical and public health failure in the pandemic. However, vaccine developers’ practices were not monolithic, but rather, took d
Since its emergence in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant increase in deaths worldwide. This article presents a detailed analysis of the mortality burden of the COVID-19 pandemic across 569 regions in 25 European countries. We produce age and sex-specific excess...