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 and Betty Hanan COVID-19 vaccination is critical to reduce the risk of infection and death due to COVID-19 disease, and hence for global economic recovery and normalization in social interactions and travel. Indeed, since a large share of the world needs to be immune to the virus, the COVID-19 vaccine deployment […]