The advent of effective vaccines has given us hope that there is a light at the end of the tunnel of the COVID-19 crisis. With both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada having authorized the use of the Pfizer vaccine in children over 12 years old, and with lower age groups likely to be authorized in the coming months, many are looking forward to seeing entire populations vaccinated and life returning to normal.
While this may seem promising, it ignores the suffering of the world around us, much of which has minimal access to vaccines for people of any age. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, the director of the World Health Organization, said, “I understand why some countries want to vaccinate their children and adolescents, but right now I urge them to reconsider and to instead donate vaccines to COVAX (the global vaccine repository).”
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