Month: July 2021

WEEKLY COVID VACCINE RESEARCH UPDATE Friday, July 23, 2021 High-income country confirmed dose total: 6.3 billion Upper-middle-income country total: 2.4 billion Lower-middle-income country total: 3.1 billion Low-income country total: 331 million COVAX total: 3.2 billion Total worldwide confirmed purchases of Covid-19 vaccines: 14 billion doses INSIGHTS Delta variant poses a global threat despite increased production of vaccines.  Author: Joslin Coggan While businesses return to full capacity and mask mandates are lifted in much of the US and several other countries with relatively high vaccination rates, there is growing concern about the impact from the rapidly spreading COVID-19 delta variant. The delta variant was identified in India in December 2020 and was the dominant variant during the country’s devastating outbreak in the spring of 2021. At the beginning of June 2021, the delta variant had spread to 62 countries. The…

WEEKLY COVID VACCINE RESEARCH UPDATE Friday, July 16, 2021 High-income country confirmed dose total: 6.1 billion Upper-middle-income country total: 2.1 billion Lower-middle-income country total: 2.8 billion Low-income country total: 270.2 million COVAX total: 2.5 billion Total worldwide confirmed purchases of Covid-19 vaccines: 12.9 billion doses INSIGHTS How can LMIC countries prepare to receive and efficiently administer large numbers of COVID-19 vaccine doses? Author: Andrea Taylor Of the 3.5 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses that have been administered globally, only about 69 percent of the doses have been administered in low and middle income countries (LMICs) with 84 percent of the world’s population. Wealthy nations’ over-purchasing of the limited vaccine supply left LMIC nations without access to COVID-19 vaccine doses. However, as these nations start to vaccinate their populations and curb the pandemic within their borders, we are seeing increased donations from over-supplied…