As the world enters the pandemic's third year, some ask whether the 70% vaccination goal set by WHO and the Biden administration could in fact be detrimental.
March 15, 2022
“We seem to have lost perspective as to what the major goal of vaccines is and where they are going to yield the greatest public health benefit,” saysSpecifically, Madhi argues that governments in countries that still have low vaccination rates should shift their attention to vaccinating those who are most vulnerable to severe disease from the coronavirus. That means people age 50 and above or those with health conditions that put them at particular risk.
Gayle Smith was then coordinator of the U.S. global COVID response. “Our thinking at the time was that the world had not embraced the level of ambition that was needed to really get moving on ramping up global vaccination coverage,” says Smith. At this point, says Smith, who is now CEO of the ONE Campaign, a global health advocacy group, for low-income countries, “I am less focused, quite frankly, on, ‘will we get to 70% by September?’ and more focused on, ‘Can we get well over 9%? Can we get to 20, 30, 40, even 50%?”
“So they’re really struggling. Even with a smaller amount of supply, the issue is struggling to roll out the supply they have, rather than access.”
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