Urgent needs of low-income and middle-income countries for COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics
J. Peter Figueroa,Maria Elena Bottazzi,Peter J. Hotez,Carolina Batista,Onder Ergonul,Sarah C. Gilbert,Mayda Gursel,Mazen Hassanain,Jerome H. Kim,Bhavna Lall,Heidi J. Larson,Denise Naniche,Timothy P. Sheahan,Shmuel Shoham,Annelies Wilder-Smith,Natalie Strub-Wourgaft,Prashant Yadav,Gagandeep Kang +17 more
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The COVAX Facility of the ACT Accelerator has agreements to access 2 billion doses of WHO prequalified vaccines during 2021, but this represents only 20% of the vaccine needs of participating countries Most low-income and middle-income countries face difficulties in accessing and delivering vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19 to their populations.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2021-02-13 and is currently open access. It has received 98 citations till now.read more
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COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Campaign: An International Comparison of Qatar With GCC Nations and Other Global Groups
TL;DR: In this article , the authors focused on the case of Qatar in comparison with regional neighbors in the Gulf Cooperation Community (GCC) and with global benchmarks (G7 and OECD nations) in terms of the deployment of its mass vaccination program.
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Which countries need COVID-19 vaccines the most? Development of a prioritisation tool
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identify the most important factors for assessing countries' needs for vaccines, and to weight each, generating a scoring tool for prioritising countries, which can build on existing methods to further the role of equity in global COVID-19 vaccine allocation.
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Country immunization policies for refugees across 20 low-middle income and 20 high-income countries
TL;DR: In this article , the authors collected and analyzed existing routine immunization policies for refugees across 20 low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and 20 high income countries (HICs), each with the highest number of refugees per 1000 residents.
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Reactogenicity of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech) against COVID-19 in workers of a tertiary hospital.
C Palomo-Palomo,D Guerra-Estevez,Alberto Parrado-González,Julia Estaire-Gutiérrez,Miguel Reyes-Malia,M. Romero-Alonso +5 more
TL;DR: The distribution of reactogenicity in the present study is consistent with the data reported in previous studies on the BNT162b2 vaccine, especially in terms of its association with the participants' characteristics.
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Special Olympics global report on COVID-19 vaccination and reasons not to vaccinate among adults with intellectual disabilities
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identify global rates of COVID-19 vaccination and reasons not to vaccinate among adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) associated with country economic income levels.
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