Listen here or subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts, including YouTube, where Closed Captioning is available. Guest: Dr. Margaret Harris, infectious diseases expert and spokesperson for World Health OrganizationAs the pandemic continues, low-income and developing nations remain left behind in vaccination efforts. Many countries cannot afford vaccines because the contracts tied to them are tied to the most powerful nations in the world. Can a pandemic truly end if billions around the world don’t have access to vaccines? COVAX, a program developed by the World Health Organization, is designed to solve that problem by bridging the gap between have and have-not countries.

Source: thestar August 17, 2021 18:56 UTC