By one account, almost half -- 48 per cent -- of all vaccine doses administered to date have gone to simply 16 per cent of the world's inhabitants in high-income international locations, undermining the WHO's effort to forestall vaccine inequity.

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There's additionally sharp criticism of the US for placing a premium on patents forward of saving lives at a crucial time. Earlier this week, Oxfam launched a letter signed by greater than 100 former heads of state and Nobel laureates calling on President Biden to waive intellectual property rights for coronavirus vaccines and "put the collective proper to security for all forward of the industrial monopolies of the few."

There's additionally the inevitable left-right politics infecting the talk. Some in India's right-wing are nostalgically recalled the Trump administration's assist for New Delhi on numerous points whereas excoriating the Biden-Harris dispensation, despite the fact that it was Trump who instituted the America first coverage, together with within the combat in opposition to the pandemic.

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