The head of the World Health Organization again called on world leaders to ensure more equitable access to jabs.
The head of the World Health Organization slammed countries and regions that are ordering millions of booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines before many others have had the supplies to vaccinate even their most vulnerable and again called on world leaders to ensure more equitable access to jabs.
Last week marked a fourth straight week of increasing cases of COVID-19 globally, with cases climbing in all but one of the agency’s six regions, he said. And after 10 weeks of falling numbers, deaths are starting to rise. The main culprit for the change in the trend is the delta variant, which is fast becoming the dominant strain around the world, and is already dominant in the U.S., as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed last week.
His comments came as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration met with Pfizer PFE, -0.28% representatives to discuss booster shots and concluded that more data are needed before a decision can be made. Those talks came the same day that Israel started to offer booster shots to the immunocompromised, as it battles a fresh surge of cases despite high levels of vaccination.
That number represents a tiny fraction of the nearly 13 million Americans who have received the one-dose vaccine. Most cases of the side effect were reported in men — many of them 50 or older — and usually about two weeks after vaccination. Outside of the U.S., Russia set yet another record for fatalities in a single day at 780 and counted 24,702 new cases, Reuters reported, and Malaysia counted a record of 11,079 new cases in a day, the most since the start of the pandemic.
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