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In a press briefing Wednesday (August 4), Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus implored countries to consider a temporary moratorium on COVID-19 booster shots—until at least the end of September—to allow countries with lower vaccination rates to catch up.
More than 80 percent of the vaccines distributed to date have gone to high and upper middle–income countries, Tedros notes, “even though they account for less than half of the world’s population.”
“I understand the concern of all governments to protect their people from the Delta variant, but we cannot and we should not accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it while the world’s most vulnerable people remain unprotected,” he adds.
Several nations, ...
