Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Not sure about information, but there is a small amount of vaccine sharing going on.
U.S. to share 4 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with Mexico, Canada

 

There is a program for vaccine acquisition and distribution in Africa called Covax which is, I think, a WHO program which has largely used AstraZeneca because that was the dominant shot in the EU, which was its major supplier. Much African vaccine is acquired from India, which is a major producer, but supplies are now limited because India, which has like a billion people, is dealing with a COVID surge of its own.

 

They have electricity in Africa.

 

Vaccine storage issues could leave 3B people without access

nearly 3 billion of the world’s 7.8 billion people live where temperature-controlled storage is insufficient for an immunization campaign to bring COVID-19 under control.

Astra Zeneca and Johnson &Johnson solved this.

 

But they still have electricity in Africa. Quite frankly your tweet made it sound like us white folk had to make sure that we could get the vaccine to a bunch of black people clad in loinclothes out in the veld. People live in cities all over the African continent.

 

Or I knew that the refrigeration chain couldn’t reach a large proportion of the continent because I’d read it.

Fuck off. Nothing I wrote intimated any of what you invented.

Get back to me in six months and see what proportion of the vaccines in Africa are refrigerated.

 

That escalated quickly!

 

Did you know if say fuck off backwards, which just switches the vowels basically, it sounds British?

 

It checks out.

 

There have been complaints about Pfizer and Moderna not waiving their patents so manufacturers in other countries can produce vaccines locally. Pfizer and Moderna each plowed a lot of their money into mRNA vax research long before COVID that paid off here, so it’s not a simple problem to solve.

 

They have T-shirts and everything. It's great.