Do you have evidence for this claim? Are there specific countries you’re thinking of, where vaccination rates are low and there is either (a) survey data showing that most people have chosen not to get vaccinated, or (b) data showing that most people (or at least a lot more than 10%) have actually been offered the vaccine? Data on a country’s actual vaccine supply would also be helpful here, even if “supply” doesn’t mean “supply that actually reaches people in a well-organized way”.
“The Africa CDC will ask that all Covid-19 vaccine donations be paused until the third or fourth quarter of this year, the director of the agency told POLITICO.
John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said the primary challenge for vaccinating the continent is no longer supply shortages but logistics challenges and vaccine hesitancy — leading the agency and the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust to seek the delay.”
I think vaccine resistance imposes a ceiling, but the expense and sheer difficulty of distributing mRNA vaccines in cold storage is also a major problem (it’s why Covax refused donations for a bit), so a room temperature shelf stable vaccine is likely to be quite valuable.
Do you have evidence for this claim? Are there specific countries you’re thinking of, where vaccination rates are low and there is either (a) survey data showing that most people have chosen not to get vaccinated, or (b) data showing that most people (or at least a lot more than 10%) have actually been offered the vaccine? Data on a country’s actual vaccine supply would also be helpful here, even if “supply” doesn’t mean “supply that actually reaches people in a well-organized way”.
FWIW, this is from yesterday: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/22/africa-asks-covid-vaccine-donation-pause-00010667
“The Africa CDC will ask that all Covid-19 vaccine donations be paused until the third or fourth quarter of this year, the director of the agency told POLITICO.
John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said the primary challenge for vaccinating the continent is no longer supply shortages but logistics challenges and vaccine hesitancy — leading the agency and the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust to seek the delay.”
I think vaccine resistance imposes a ceiling, but the expense and sheer difficulty of distributing mRNA vaccines in cold storage is also a major problem (it’s why Covax refused donations for a bit), so a room temperature shelf stable vaccine is likely to be quite valuable.
Thanks! This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.
(in case anyone else was confused, this was a reply to a now-deleted comment)