Dr Mohga Kamal-Yanni says world leaders must stop putting big pharma’s profits before people’s lives. Sue Hoar wonders why more is not being done to help Covid patients in India
The shortfall in Covid vaccine doses going to the Covax vaccine-sharing scheme is deeply worrying, and highlights a massive flaw in the plans to provide vaccines to developing countries (Revealed: big shortfall in Covax Covid vaccine-sharing scheme, 22 April).
While Covax’s target of vaccinating just 20% of people in developing countries by the end of the year was already far from sufficient, it is now a long way off even meeting the May target of distributing 187.2m doses.
