βIf you ever feel useless, just remember, USA took 4 Presidents, trillions of dollars, millions of lives and 20 years to replace Taliban with Taliban.β
#Afghanistan
πΊπΈ is currently sitting on over 100 million unused vaccine doses. An estimated 35-40m are #AstraZeneca, which πΊπΈ still hasn't authorised to use on Americans and probably never will.
It is an absurd situation while half of all doses made in πͺπΊ are exported (chart @jfkirkegaard).
Hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians don't have access to their second AstraZeneca shots because of supply priorities in India. And the US is sitting on a stockpile of at least 50 million AstraZeneca doses it will in all likelihood never use. Vaccine apartheid has to end now
Global thought is shaped by violent shocks, and then it shifts. Not incrementally, but in chunks. The pandemic is one of those shocks.
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