
RHETORIC FIRST, ACTION LATER: THE G7 APPROACH TO GLOBAL EQUITY
WEEKLY COVID VACCINE RESEARCH UPDATE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2021 Data Updates High-income country confirmed dose total: 4.6 billion Upper-middle-income country total: 1.3 billion Lower-middle-income country total: 631 million Low-income country total: 671 million COVAX total: 1.12 billion Total worldwide confirmed purchases of Covid-19 vaccines: 8.25 billion doses Weekly Insights and Interesting Trends Author: Andrea Taylor Rhetoric first, action later: the G7 approach to global equity The G7 countries met (virtually) on Friday, February 19, to share variants of “no one is safe until everyone is safe” and discuss the importance of global equity of Covid-19 vaccines and the need for international cooperation. (Sound familiar? That’s because we heard the same things from the G20 in November.) The countries together pledged another $7.5 billion in funding for COVAX (including the $4 billion that the US Congress set aside for…