‘Recognition of failure’: A shift urged in global vaccination strategy

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Global health organizations are considering changing their Covid-19 vaccination pledges — a move that could leave millions of people without first shots as countries reprioritize at-risk groups in the coming months

Prioritizing vulnerable populations — health care workers, elderly individuals and those with comorbidities — could undermine the global push to prevent variants if it reduces the total number of vaccinated people, some experts said.

“Striving to vaccinate 70 percent of the population of every country remains essential for bringing the pandemic under control — with priority given to health workers, older people and other at-risk groups,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a press conference Wednesday. “I’m surprised that there are some in the global health community who see the 70 percent target as no longer relevant.

So far, the Biden administration — leading a country where about 80 percent of people have had at least one dose of the vaccine — and COVAX haven’t addressed whether they’d change how they prioritize vaccinations across the world. The U.S. Agency for International Development — the agency that oversees global Covid-19 vaccinations — declined to comment.

 

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