Not very well, thank you. According to "Our World in Data" ( https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations ) today, "65.7% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. 11.75 billion doses have been administered globally, and 7.09 million are now administered each day. Only 15.9% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose."
A recent Lancet article (Closing the global vaccine equity gap: equitably distributed manufacturing, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00793-0) notes that, "Although the unprecedented speed of development of COVID-19 diagnostics, vaccines, and treatments has been lauded, one shortcoming that persists is vaccine inequity. The global roll-out of vaccines has been uneven, progressing expeditiously in many high-income countries (HICs) and delayed in low-income countries (LICs). Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine production was insufficient to meet global demand. Many wealthy countries turned inwards, procuring vaccine doses through exclusive bilateral deals for their domestic populations (vaccine nationalism), and manufacturing countries, such as India, imposed temporary export bans. These events catalysed the global vaccine inequity that is still evident today. During the past 19 months, there has been considerable increase in vaccine production globally with a projected output of 24 billion total doses by mid-2022. Unfortunately, as of May 2, 2022, only 15·7% of eligible individuals in LICs have received a single vaccine dose, largely due to constraints in both availability and absorptive capacity."
While the rest of the world is busy getting back to normal, we shouldn't forget the plight of those still facing COVID-19 as an acute emergency.
Chris Zielinski
chris@chriszielinski.com
Blogs: http://ziggytheblue.wordpress.com and http://ziggytheblue.tumblr.com
Research publications: http://www.researchgate.net
HIFA profile: Chris Zielinski: As a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Global Health, Chris leads the Partnerships in Health Information (Phi) programme at the University of Winchester. Formerly an NGO, Phi supports knowledge development and brokers healthcare information exchanges of all kinds. Chris has held senior positions in publishing and knowledge management with WHO in Brazzaville, Geneva, Cairo and New Delhi, with FAO in Rome, ILO in Geneva, and UNIDO in Vienna. Chris also spent three years in London as Chief Executive of the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society. He was the founder of the ExtraMED project (Third World biomedical journals on CD-ROM), and managed the Gates Foundation-supported Health Information Resource Centres project. He served on WHO’s Ethical Review Committee, and was an originator of the African Health Observatory. Chris has been a director of the World Association of Medical Editors, UK Copyright Licensing Agency, Educational Recording Agency, and International Association of Audiovisual Writers and Directors. He has served on the boards of several NGOs and ethics groupings (information and computer ethics and bioethics). UK-based, he is also building houses in Zambia. chris AT chriszielinski.com
His publications are at www.ResearchGate.net and https://winchester.academia.edu/ChrisZielinski/ and his blogs are http://ziggytheblue.wordrpress.com and https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ziggytheblue
