Reactionary political movements fostered vaccine inequity and "created the ideal conditions for the emergence of new variants," WHO's leader said.
  • DPUGT2
    4·
    3 years ago

    Not even the scariest potential, unfortunately.

    • pingvenoM
      3·
      3 years ago

      It’s not the US that I’m personally most worried about, though we must do better internally. It’s nations with vaccination rates that make even heavily anti-vaxxer regions of the US look good. Almost all of Africa is in incredibly bad shape. There are a couple of African countries that have broken 50%, but it is common to have rates below 10%. Its third largest country, The Democratic Republic of The Congo, has 100 million people and a 0.2% vaccination rate. The world must do better in helping Africa get vaccinated, both to stop variants and to end the erosion of Africa’s hard won progress in recent years.

        • pingvenoM
          2·
          3 years ago

          It’s not just avoiding damage to individuals. Each new infected person means billions of new copies of the virus, each with a chance of mutating and causing a new variant. Until we see the end of a continent being left as a human petri dish, we’re just going to be seeing more and more variants.

            • pingvenoM
              2·
              3 years ago

              No idea, but that’s inconsequential. Immunization via infection just provides a chance for a new variant, and people can be infected multiple times. Immunization via vaccines does not have that risk.