Feast and famine: vaccine supply

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Though over 10bn doses of covid-19 vaccine may be produced this year, much of the poor world will see little of them. The supply of vaccines is much tighter than it ought to be. Our correspondent in New Delhi offers a personal reflection on India’s spiraling epidemic. And even as British museums re-open today, their future is looking shaky. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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1:07.2	Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.
1:13.9	I'm your host, Shashakak Joshi filling in for Jason Palmer.
1:18.9	Every weekday, we give you a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
1:27.4	Last year, it looked as though India had escaped the worst of the pandemic. Those hopes came crashing down in the spring. Our correspondent
1:29.0	New Delhi gives us a personal reflection on the health crisis now engulfing the country.
1:36.1	And museums have suffered in the pandemic, but British museums, which reopened today, are in
1:41.5	especially bad shape. With government funding drying up, they have to find new ways to survive.
1:47.0	First up, though.
2:00.0	First up, though.
2:10.7	Pharmaceutical companies could provide nearly 11 billion COVID vaccine doses this year,
2:13.3	but the vaccines can't come quickly enough.
2:19.6	In the United Kingdom, a quickly spreading variant that was first detected in India is worrying health officials.
2:24.4	We believe this variant is more transmissible than the previous one.
2:28.7	It could threaten the country's planned lifting of all COVID restrictions by June.
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