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Wealthy nations starved the developing world of vaccines. Omicron shows the cost of this greed

  • Written by Deborah Gleeson, Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University
Wealthy nations starved the developing world of vaccines. Omicron shows the cost of this greedThemba Hadebe/AP

We don’t yet know how dangerous the new Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 will turn out to be. Early evidence suggests it may be more transmissible than other variants, and the World Health Organization has raised concerns about its potential to spark another global surge in infections.

If currently available vaccines continue to...

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