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Eugene

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Fri Mar 25, 2022, 08:08 AM Mar 2022

Novavax: Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones

Source: Associated Press

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones

By MARIA CHENG and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL
March 24, 2022

NEW DELHI (AP) — The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world has sent tens of millions of doses to wealthy nations but provided none yet to the U.N.-backed effort to supply poorer countries, a sign that inequity persists in the global response to the pandemic.

A quarter-million doses from the company were supposed to be available to the vaccine-sharing initiative, called COVAX, by March. But the U.N. agency in charge of deliveries says the first shipments now likely won’t be made until April or May.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The company, Novavax, got $388 million from one of the organizations leading COVAX to fast-track the vaccine’s development and help make the shot available in poorer countries.

The investment guaranteed COVAX the “right of first refusal” to the first Novavax doses, but the deal applied only to factories in the Czech Republic, South Korea and Spain, said Bjorg Dystvold Nilsson, spokesman for COVAX co-founder CEPI.

There are other factories that aren’t part of the deal — and their shots are going elsewhere.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-business-health-europe-778444506a72e8f9c3be327640b1929d

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Novavax: Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2022 OP
That's ridiculous. SergeStorms Mar 2022 #1

SergeStorms

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1. That's ridiculous.
Fri Mar 25, 2022, 09:51 AM
Mar 2022

In the wealthy, developed countries they're throwing vaccine away because so few are getting vaccinated now. So they have to be first in getting the new vaccine while poorer countries have no vaccines at all?

This makes perfect sense.........to no one.

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