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More Than 60 Low-Income Countries May Not Receive COVID-19 Vaccines Until 2021

Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)
Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

As health care workers and nursing homes in the United States and the United Kingdom await the COVID-19 vaccine, at least 67 low-income countries may not get access to vaccines until 2021.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni, policy adviser to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, about equal access to vaccines.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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