The World Needs 16.5 Billion Shots. Instead It Gets ‘Vaccine Apartheid’
Funeral workers burying Covid-19 victims at a cemetery in Medan, Indonesia, on July 19.
Photographer: Ivan Damanik/NurPhotoWanted: 16.5 billion vaccine doses.
That’s the number urgently needed to inoculate the world against Covid-19—on top of the roughly 6.5 billion doses already administered. This according to Chad P. Bown, a trade specialist at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, and Thomas J. Bollyky, the Director of the Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations.