Action on Covid-19
Scarcely 60% of the world’s population is vaccinated against Covid. Vaccine supplies are now more ample. Yet worldwide vaccination rates have fallen steadily since late 2021, now to a rate at which it would take four and a half years to give everyone in the world a new jab, or a first if they’ve had none. Part of the reason is difficulties of distribution and take-up, part of it that governments (with a few exceptions: Vietnam, Japan, Norway...) have given up. Outside China most people have had Covid by now, and have some protection from that earlier infection. Yet vaccination remains a good...