Sat 16 October 2021:
The world’s largest vaccination campaign is under underway. According to Bloomberg figures, more than 6.64 billion doses have been administered in 184 countries. The most recent pace was approximately 26.4 million doses per day.
Enough vaccine doses have now been given to fully vaccinate 43.2 percent of the world’s population, but the distribution has been unequal. Vaccination rates in high-income countries and regions are more than 20 times higher than in low-income countries and regions.
About 77 percent of shots that have gone into arms worldwide have been administered in high- and upper-middle-income countries. Only 0.5 percent of doses have been administered in low-income countries.
In the U.S., 405 million doses have been given so far. In the last week, an average of 835,492 doses per day were administered.
While the best vaccines are highly successful at preventing illness and death, stopping a pandemic requires a coordinated approach. Vaccinating 70 percent to 85 percent of the US population, according to infectious-disease experts, would allow for a return to normalcy.
That’s an alarming level of vaccination on a worldwide basis. The objective of high levels of universal immunity is a long way off at the current rate of 26.4 million every day. Manufacturing capacity, on the other hand, is rapidly rising, and new vaccines from new manufacturers are being introduced to the market.
The current global vaccination rate is an average of 26,436,079 doses per day. It will take another 6 months to cover 75% of the population at this rate.
New strains have resurrected outbreaks, led by the highly transmissible delta variant. Vaccine and virus are now in a life-or-death battle. Unvaccinated people are at higher danger than ever before, prompting health officials in the United States to call it a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
According to the most recent data, even among people who have been vaccinated, the delta variation can cause minor cases, and those who become ill can spread the disease to others. Hospitalization and death are still prevented by the vaccinations.
Less wealthy countries are relying on a vaccine-sharing arrangement called Covax, which originally aimed to provide two billion doses by the end of the year but has repeatedly cut its forecasts because of production problems, export bans and vaccine hoarding by wealthy nations. In its latest projection, it expected to have a total of 1.4 billion doses available by the end of 2021.
This has led to a striking divide between regions of the world. Africa has the slowest vaccination rate of any continent, with just 7.5 percent of the population receiving at least one dose of a vaccine.
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