Is COVID-19 vaccine inequality undermining the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The devastating health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a global response in the development of effective vaccines to fight the disease in an extraordinarily short time. Both the development and the production of these vaccines opened a path of hope, but the inequality in vaccine distribution raises great concerns about the possibility of effectively eradicating the virus.

Methods

It is particularly important to analyse the extent to which vaccines are equally distributed and investigate the possible effects of vaccine inequalities as well as its major drivers. For this purpose, this paper investigates the extent of equitable vaccine distribution using some well-known inequality measures and disentangles the main drivers of the share of vaccinat

SUBMITTER: Suarez-Alvarez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9126303 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature