Because another one may be in our future.
, tells SELF. Mass vaccination is the proposed solution. Yet even though India is the world’s largest vaccine producer, it’s facing a COVID-19 vaccine shortage: Only about 3% of its 1.37 billion people have been fully vaccinated as of late May. “It’s not a question of beingDuring a normal year, a total of approximately 4 billion vaccine doses are manufactured worldwide to inoculate people against many diseases, says Dr. Gupta.
Business and political leaders of key countries are also joining forces to find innovative ways to more equitably dole out supply, she says. Theis distributing vaccines to lower-income countries, for example, while the World Trade Organization is working to temporarily waive intellectual property rights on vaccines to secure faster equitable access worldwide to COVID-19 vaccines.
Early on in the pandemic, hospitals reported shortages of key equipment needed to care for COVID-19 patients, includingand personal protective equipment for medical staff. Dr. Adalja, with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, explains that hospitals are run to maximize profits while public health institutions scrape by on bare-bones budgets—a formula for a shortfall in a pandemic.
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