414 - The Disappointing State of Global Vaccination for COVID-19
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In September 2020, President Biden pledged to vaccinate 70% of the world's population by September 2021. More than a year later, however, the US has delivered about 270 million of the 11 billion doses needed to vaccinate the planet. Lawrence Gostin, a Georgetown University professor and public health expert, returns to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about how things have gone so wrong, why he isn't optimistic about vaccination equity improvements in 2022, and how vaccine manufacturers could be doing so much more to help.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
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| 0:38.3 | For future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.3 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. |
| 0:46.3 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Lawrence Goston, a Georgetown University professor and public health expert, |
| 0:52.3 | about how the U.S. is obligated to the rest of the world |
| 0:55.3 | when it comes to supplying COVID-19 vaccines and how the donation model being deployed is no |
| 1:01.4 | substitute for providing the patents so other countries can make vaccines themselves. Let's listen. |
| 1:08.6 | Lawrence Goston, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:12.3 | It's a pleasure to be with you. |
| 1:13.4 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:22.4 | So we had you on earlier in 2021, and we talked about the global vaccination picture, and it was looking very grim. |
| 1:23.5 | And I wanted to know where we stand today. |
| 1:27.1 | And what is the role of the U.S. in making a global vaccination effort, a reality? |
| 1:34.9 | Well, we're at a truly disappointing, almost pitiful level of global vaccination. you know, the overwhelming number of doses have |
| 1:49.5 | gotten into the arms of high-income countries, the United States, European countries, the UK, |
| 1:57.6 | Canada, certain high-income Asian countries, and the rest of the world, particularly |
| 2:03.5 | sub-Saharan Africa, has largely been left behind. |
| 2:07.4 | And we even see that, you know, health workers and other frontline workers in some low-income |
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