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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

'Unethical and unconscionable': Richer nations getting more COVID-19 vaccines than poorer [USA Today, 13 February 2021]

Title:
'Unethical and unconscionable': Richer nations getting more COVID-19 vaccines than poorer 
 
Author:
Megan Janetsky
 
Published:
USA Today, 13 February 2021 [updated 14 February 2021]

From the article:
While images of people lined up for long-awaited COVID-19 vaccinations spurred hope in millions across the globe, they stirred up something else in Dr. Juan Jose Velez: frustration.  
 
Velez runs the coronavirus ward in one of the biggest public hospitals in Colombia, a country with one of the highest death rates and coronavirus positivity rates in the world.  
 
While more than 152 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally, with roughly a third of those in the U.S., according to Bloomberg's vaccine tracker, Colombia is among a number of lower- to middle-income countries that still had not administered a single dose by mid-February.