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Laura Lopez Gonzalez is a health and science writer based in South Africa.
While Western nations plan to introduce booster vaccines, millions in the Global South are still awaiting their first shot – under capitalism, global inequality must be maintained even at the expense of public health.
As of today, the United States has distributed 15 times more vaccines than the entire continent of Africa – hoarding by the Developed World threatens the global Covid response and will deepen inequality for years to come.
As rich countries stockpile Covid vaccine doses and protect the interests of Big Pharma while poor countries are forced to wait years for treatments, it’s never been clearer how global injustice threatens all of our health.