'What is going to shut down disease is for everybody who is especially at risk of disease to become vaccinated,' Dr. Kate O'Brien said.
organization worried that the emergence of the Omicron variant would scare richer nations into hoarding vaccine supplies, potentially prolonging the lingering pandemic.
After low-income countries saw months of vaccine shortages, donation programs like COVAX and other initiatives began to increase their supply in the last couple months. The WHO, which has long condemned and warned against the impacts of so-called"vaccine inequity," wants to prevent the vast majority of vaccine doses from going to wealthier countries again as the world looks to tamp down the Omicron variant.
The WHO official said that the only way the pandemic can be fully stopped is by immunizing the masses rather than to keep providing doses to residents of wealthier countries. The World Health Organization expressed concerns that rich countries spooked by the emergence of the Omicron variant could step up hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines and strain global supplies again. Above, used syringes in a bin at Swaminarayan School vaccination center, in London, December 4, 2021.'s drug regulator said Thursday it is closely following the spread of the new variant and whether new vaccines will be required to fight it.
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