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Dec 2021
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Vaccine inequality help lead to the Omic...

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Dr. Ayoade Alakija, co-chair of the African Union's COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Alliance, joins CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta to discuss vaccine inequality on the continent. She says the inequality is an example of a wider, more systematic issue. Dr. Alakija tells Patta African countries are being punished for identifying the Omicron variant.

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