Evening Edition: Global Initiative To Get Vaccines To Poorest Nations

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The World Health Organization has teamed up with UNICEF to help get vaccines to health workers and those with risk factors in the poorer countries of the world. UNICEF says they plan on distributing 2-billion vaccines to ninety two low and middle income countries by the end of 2021. FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Michael Nyenhuis, president and CEO of UNICEF USA, about the role UNICEF plays in getting vaccines to lower income regions of the globe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.3	Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020. I'm Trey Yinks.
0:25.0	UNICEF plans to transport 850 tons of COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries each month in 2021.
0:34.7	UNICEF has done inventories of refrigeration abilities in various countries to be able to
0:40.5	store vaccines.
0:41.9	We've been stockpiling syringes. We've been doing
0:45.2	readiness testing with health systems in various countries and all of that
0:49.3	sort of feeds into this
0:55.0	is the Fox News rundown,
0:57.0	evening addition.
0:59.0	In a campaign in a campaign that is being described as mammoth and historic, UNICEF will work with the
1:08.2	World Health Organization to roll out coronavirus vaccines around the world.
1:12.7	This plan is linked to COVAX, a global initiative to ensure vaccines make it to lower income
1:17.7	nations.
1:18.7	UNICEF will provide logistics and distribution support to make sure those who may be at a socioeconomic
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