WESTERN COUNTRIES WOULD “WASTE” 100 MILLION VACCINES BY THE END OF THE YEAR- FORMER BRITISH PM GORDON BROWN

Mon 29 November 2021:

Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown said that 100 million vaccines would be “wasted” by western countries by the end of the year.

Brown, who is ambassador for global health financing at the World Health Organisation, told Sky News: “We’ve got to get vaccines out to the rest of the world. There are probably about 100 million vaccines in the West that will be wasted by the end of the year because they’re not going to be used. And I think people hate waste and hate the idea that vaccines will pass the expiry date and not be used.”

On the issue of richer nations shipping vaccine “leftovers” when they are very close to their expiry date, he added: “The better way is to think look, we’re producing soon two billion vaccines a month across the world.”

PA Media quote him saying: “There’s going to be no difficulty about countries being able to get hold of them if they’re rich enough to be able to afford them over the next few months.

“If we have excess supply, and we know we’re not going to use them in the next few months, then we should get them out as quickly as possible. If you waste a vaccine, you’re actually putting a life at risk.”

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