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World Health Organization chief demands that elderly be vaccinated first

Posted: Monday, January 18, 2021. 10:23 am CST.

By BBN Staff: Chief of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus criticized drugmakers profits and vaccine inequalities, The Associated Press reports.

In a week long executive meeting held virtually, the Director-General lamented how 1 poor country received 25 vaccine doses while over 39 million doses had been administered in 50 rich nations.

“Just 25 doses have been given in one lowest-income country — not 25 million, not 25,000 — just 25. I need to be blunt: The world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure,” Tedros said.

Tedros said that while all governments are prioritizing vaccination for their own health workers and elderly, it was not right that young, health adults in rich countries are being vaccinated before health workers and elderly in poor countries.

WHO said that it backed COVAX since the program aims to get vaccines to all countries.

Vaccine deliveries under COVAX will begin in February.

Tedros also discussed how the situation is affected because most manufacturers prioritized regulatory approval in rich countries, where the profits are highest, rather than submitting full dossiers to WHO.

 

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