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Music books. Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver and a broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Over a year into this pandemic, there are now multiple highly

effective vaccines. People no longer have to die of COVID-19. It's a scientific breakthrough we

should all be grateful for. But unfortunately, as has long been the case with vital medicines,

the vaccine is not being distributed equitably, not even close.

Rich countries are vaccinating one person every second, while many of the poorest nations have yet to administer a single shot.

Some experts warn that nine out of ten people in poor countries may never be vaccinated at all. The United States is hoarding access to more doses than we could ever use. Pharmaceutical companies,

though their research was funded by public money, are refusing to share the formulas and technology that would allow

other countries to manufacture supplies of their own, all while charging poor countries

through the nose. South Africa, for example, is paying two and a half times the per unit price

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