There is a lot of politics and economics involved in the distribution of the Covid vaccine. Based on the availability of the vaccine, the future looks dismal for the have-nots. They say it takes 11 years for Africa to reach herd immunity.
Africans suffering for 11 years is a blot on our collective shared feeling. We really should be ashamed. The quick answer is to remove barriers to producing vaccines based on politics.
It remains for the future to determine how many lives would have been saved in India if Biden had not put restrictions on vaccine raw materials; if China had given full cooperation to the WHO fact finding team, and all religions for not cooperating with congregations and defying social distancing, and for political rallies (Trump, Modi, etc.), and activism groups for their agenda (BLM, etc.). They did not give a damn for the Covid virus's virulence.
Here is some nice summarizing of the vaccine path for India and Vaccine economics.
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