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Wealthy nations’ vaccine spree obscures global pandemic misery

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Inefficient, InequitableBut as India grapples with a deadly surge among its population of 1.4 billion, worries are growing for many other spots all over the planet.

Despite declines in the developed world, more than 600,000 new Covid cases are reported globally each day, as stubborn epidemics in countries like Colombia, Brazil and Malaysia burn on.

Waiving patents on vaccines, a proposal the Biden administration supports, is promising but won’t address immediate needs for supply, said Ellen ‘t Hoen, director of Medicines Law & Policy, a research group based in the Netherlands.“Anything that exists today should really go to places where the crisis is the most serious," she said. “Maybe vaccinating teenagers in California shouldn’t be the.

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