'We can count in people's lives the consequences of continuing to do the minimum, instead of what is needed,' said Maybarduk of Public_Citizen.
that providing three coronavirus vaccine doses to every person in low- and lower-middle-income countries would prevent over a million deaths for the cost of $61 billion—a fraction of the $778 billion U.S. military budget for fiscal year 2022.
Adding a booster dose to the equation would increase the price tag of the vaccination scale-up to $61.2 billion while saving 1.5 million lives,"a cost of $40,800 per death averted," they found.
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