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Feb 2021
19m 35s

Vaccine hoarding

Vox
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Poorer countries have received less than 1 percent of the Covid-19 vaccines distributed around the world. Vox’s Julia Belluz explains what the WHO is calling a “catastrophic moral failure.”

Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.

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