Sanctioned countries in the global COVID-19 vaccination campaign: the forgotten 70%

COVAX, the global initiative on COVID-19 vaccines, has set the target of achieving a COVID-19 vaccination coverage of up to 30% of the population of 135 countries in 2 years. Here, we argue that COVAX should anticipate important and unforeseen challenges with regard to sanctioned countries. For thos...

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Autores principales: Blanchet, Karl, Mallard, Grégoire, Moret, Erica, Sun, Jin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8446724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34535155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-021-00404-2
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description COVAX, the global initiative on COVID-19 vaccines, has set the target of achieving a COVID-19 vaccination coverage of up to 30% of the population of 135 countries in 2 years. Here, we argue that COVAX should anticipate important and unforeseen challenges with regard to sanctioned countries. For those, COVAX needs to provide a higher percentage of the vaccines. Otherwise, the problems of vaccination will linger, risking the advent of new variants and preventing an effective global response in reigning the pandemic under control.
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spelling pubmed-84467242021-09-17 Sanctioned countries in the global COVID-19 vaccination campaign: the forgotten 70% Blanchet, Karl Mallard, Grégoire Moret, Erica Sun, Jin Confl Health Commentary COVAX, the global initiative on COVID-19 vaccines, has set the target of achieving a COVID-19 vaccination coverage of up to 30% of the population of 135 countries in 2 years. Here, we argue that COVAX should anticipate important and unforeseen challenges with regard to sanctioned countries. For those, COVAX needs to provide a higher percentage of the vaccines. Otherwise, the problems of vaccination will linger, risking the advent of new variants and preventing an effective global response in reigning the pandemic under control. BioMed Central 2021-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8446724/ /pubmed/34535155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-021-00404-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Sanctioned countries in the global COVID-19 vaccination campaign: the forgotten 70%
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title_sort sanctioned countries in the global covid-19 vaccination campaign: the forgotten 70%
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8446724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34535155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-021-00404-2
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