Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Omicron variant is product of vaccine inequality between the west and developing nations - The Washington Post

…"Our achievements in our own country are at high risk because of the failures outside of our country, because of vaccine nationalism, not just in the United States and Europe, but also India and China," J. Stephen Morrison, director of the global health policy center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told me over the weekend. "If you have uncontrolled transmission in large populations, that is the optimum environment for generating new variants. In Africa, you have a 6 percent vaccination rate. You're going to get mutations."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/29/omicron-vaccine-inequality-west/


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