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Wealthy nations will have 1.2 billion Covid-19 doses they don't need

Health advocates worry that the slow pace will prolong the pandemic and increase the risk more worrisome variants will emerge

coronavirus, covid-19, vaccine, vaccination
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James Paton | Bloomberg
Wealthy countries face mounting pressure to divert Covid vaccine supplies to lower-income regions, with a new analysis showing they’ll likely have about 1.2 billion extra doses available by the end of the year.
 
The U.S., Britain, European nations and others could satisfy their own needs -- vaccinating about 80% of their populations over the age of 12 and moving ahead with booster programs -- and still have large quantities to redistribute globally, according to London-based analytics firm Airfinity Ltd. 

Those governments have so far delivered a meager amount of the supplies they’ve pledged to poorer countries as some move forward with

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