Millions of people remain at risk of dying from COVID-19 because high-income countries (HICs), including the US, continue to hoard excess vaccine doses, warns a new report released today by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Even while factoring in third-dose boosters for high-risk groups, high-income countries are hoarding an estimated 870 million excess doses—nearly 500 million in the US alone. The rapid redistribution of these doses to low- and middle-income countries could save nearly one million lives by mid-2022. More than 60 percent of people in HICs have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine while less than 3 percent of people in low-income countries (LICs) have. The international medical humanitarian organization is calling on governments to commit to a concrete plan to redistribute vaccine doses to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) via COVAX or regional procurement bodies by the end of October.
— source doctorswithoutborders.org | Oct 11, 2021