The Omicron variant, while we wait for clarification on its many unknowns, has sparked the latest bout of that panic. Even with the ambitious booster programmes, there are still plenty of unused doses sitting in the warehouses of western nations. So there’s no need to make a choice between vaccinating low-income countries or offering boosters in wealthy nations: we can still do both. When 90% of Africa’s health workers are unprotected, for most African countries supply is still the issue. Had a principle of vaccine equity governed the global rollout, this could have comfortably vaccinated every adult in the world.

Source: The Guardian December 06, 2021 23:50 UTC