Covid-19: "We need a global vaccination, effective on all variants"
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A man vaccinated in Jerusalem on January 11.
AP - Oded Balilty
By: Florent Guignard
8 min
The WHO boss warned that the world would face a "catastrophic moral failure" if rich countries monopolized vaccines at the expense of poor countries.
The international organization estimated that nearly 70 poor countries could only vaccinate one in ten inhabitants next year.
Too little to achieve collective immunity.
A delay in immunization in poor countries will also have serious consequences for their economies and endanger the recovery in rich countries.
The decryption of Frédéric Bizard, health economist and founding president of the Institut de la santé.
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