In delivering vaccines, pharmaceutical companies aided by monumental government investments have given humanity a miraculous shot at liberation from the worst pandemic in a century.
But wealthy countries have captured an overwhelming share of the benefit. Only 0.3 percent of the vaccine doses administered globally have been given in the 29 poorest countries, home to about 9 percent of the world’s population.
Image: Health workers waiting to enter a vaccination center at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, last week.Credit...Gulshan Khan for The New York Times
