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While Australians line up for COVID boosters, low vaccination rates in poor countries continue to cost lives

  • Written by: Deborah Gleeson, Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University
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Two and a half years into the pandemic, more than 12 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, and more than 5 million are being administered each day. People in many high-income countries, including Australia, are now receiving their third or fourth dose. But the distribution of vaccines globally is still vastly...

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