Poor nations could wait years for a vaccine

America's, Great Britain's, and Canada's vaccine rollouts will take months, but poorer countries may wait years

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN)- While Dr. Fauci predicts that every American will have access to a COVID-19 vaccine come the end of April, people in low-income countries could be waiting years.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) initiative known as COVAX was launched in April in response to the pandemic.

According to WHO, COVAX is, “the only truly global solution to this pandemic because it is the only effort to ensure that people in all corners of the world will get access to COVID-19 vaccines once they are available, regardless of their wealth.”

But COVAX has only acquired a fraction of the projected 2 billion doses they had hoped to get over the next year. They have not confirmed if any deals have been made to ship out the vaccine.

SEE ALSO: Wealthy nations are accused of “hoarding” vaccines, US among them

In a study done by Duke Global Health Innovation Center, experts said, “many of these countries will be able to vaccinate their entire populations — and some will be able to do so many times over — before billions of people are vaccinated in low-income countries.”

Though the coronavirus took no care in her victims worldwide, vaccinating them will prove more picky. The distance between wealth and health is closing and the poor will face the fallout.