By Patricio V. Marquez and Sarah Eyman As the COVID-19 vaccination drive intensifies in the rich world, progress in low- and lower-middle-income countries lags far behind due to limited access to vaccines. As of mid-June 20201, about 21.8% of the world’s population, or 1.71 billion people, had received at least their first dose of one of […]
By Patricio V. Marquez, Betty Hanan, Giovanni S. Marquez “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale” –Rudolf Virchow, German physician, founding father of pathology and social medicine, 1821-1902 With the approval for emergency use of Pfizer/BioNTech’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines by the Stringent Regulatory Authorities (SRA) in the […]