Month: January 2021

WEEKLY COVID VACCINE RESEARCH UPDATE MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 Data Updates High-income country confirmed dose total: 4.2 billion Upper-middle-income country total: 1.14 billion Lower-middle-income country total: 444 million Low-income country total: 270 million COVAX total: 1.11 billion Total worldwide confirmed purchases of Covid-19 vaccines: 7.2 billion doses Weekly Insights and Interesting Trends Author: Andrea Taylor The US formally joined COVAX. Will it Matter? Dr. Anthony Fauci, newly named the US Chief Medical Advisor, warmly addressed the WHO executive board within the first 24 hours of the Biden administration. Dr. Fauci confirmed that under President Joe Biden, the US will rejoin the WHO and will also join COVAX, the global mechanism designed to ensure equitable allocation of vaccines across the world. The value of this move may be largely symbolic at this point. The…

WEEKLY COVID VACCINE RESEARCH UPDATE TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2021 Data Updates High-income country confirmed dose total: 4.2 billion Upper-middle-income country total: 1.12 billion Lower-middle-income country total: 411 million Low-income country total: 270 million COVAX total 1.07 billion Total worldwide confirmed purchases of Covid-19 vaccines: 7.4 billion doses Weekly Insights and Interesting Trends Author: Andrea Taylor Direct deals by poorer countries are an important and encouraging development This past week, we saw the first direct vaccine purchases made for low-income countries with the African Union’s purchase of 270 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech, OxfordAstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson (J&J). A relatively modest purchase of 270 million doses, when 7 billion doses have already been bought, might be overlooked but it actually represents a significant shift in the global power…

WEEKLY COVID VACCINE RESEARCH UPDATE MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2021 Data Updates High-income country confirmed dose total: 4.2 billion Upper-middle-income country total: 1.24 billion Lower-middle-income country total: 495 million Low-income country total: 0 COVAX total: 1.07 billion Total worldwide confirmed purchases of Covid-19 vaccines: 7 billion doses Weekly Insights and Interesting Trends Author: Andrea Taylor Changing how India's vaccine numbers are represented in our data We have changed this week the way that India’s reserved doses of vaccine are represented in our data, moving the majority of the doses out of “confirmed” to “potential” doses. The way we have been counting India’s numbers in past weeks is a bit different than for other countries. Our numbers typically come from publicly reported purchases by governments (and occasionally private sector buyers). But because…