COVID-19 pandemicGEOPOLITICSGLOBALIZATIONThis article analyzes spatial hierarchies and geopolitical conflicts during the COVID-19 pandemic from a worldsystems perspective. Drawing on data on global vaccine production and distribution, we argue that the trimodal structure of the capitalist...
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Views1,681 Citations0 2 Global Health December20,2022 Howard Larkin JAMA.2022;328(23):2294. doi:10.1001/jama.2022.20041 FullText Largely driven by COVID-19, vaccine doses distributed worldwide jumped to 16 billion in 2021, nearly 3 times the 5.8 billion in 2019, according to the World He...
Increasing pressure for COVID-19 vaccines In her speech, Ursula von der Leyen took a different angle on vaccine distribution concerns, by addressing the mounting tensions between her European Commission and pharmaceutical firms that have delayed COVID-19 vaccine deliveries, insisting the co...
What does it take to deliver 1 billion vaccines? Ingenious supply chain solutions for revolutionary vaccines Understanding the building blocks of pandemic resilience Upcoming risk trend brings renewed focus to supply chains The stoppers that make the vaccine go...
Vaccine distribution requires managing multiple supply chain setups The global vaccination campaign represents a crucial instrument in the fight against the COVID-19, and it is essential for containing further virus variants. To reach high immunization levels, around 10 billion vaccine doses will be ...
The impressive 92 percent protection rate of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine offers an opportunity for China and Russia, the two shepherds of global COVID-19 vaccine developers, to join hands on world vaccine distribution, help ease the white-hot global vaccine scuffle, and offer hope to control ...
COVID-19 vaccines and stock solutions to more than 100 countries and international organizations worldwide, equivalent to one-sixth of the total global vaccine production. However, the statistics also lay bare that the vaccination progress in developing countries is significantly...
The U.S., as the world's number onesuperpower, has absolutely insufficient responsibility and accountability tomatch. While it always boasts humanitarianism and human rights, the countrypractices "America First" and adheres to "vaccinenationalism" on the matter of COVID-19 vaccine distribution. The...
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, global vaccine campaigns are a mass vaccination intervention conducted through routine service provision for individuals who have reached a specified age. However, obtaining a high uptake rate to reach herd immunity may be undermined by various social motivati...