“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.
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.