How The Delta Variant Is Changing The Pandemic On A Global Scale

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🗓️ 2 July 2021

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Cases are surging in countries around the world as the more transmissible delta variant spreads rapidly. Also growing: pressure on vaccine-rich countries to help people in countries where vaccines are still scarce.

NPR's Will Stone reports on the waiting game. And Harvard's Junaid Habi argues vaccine hesitancy in America is a peculiar privilege.

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0:00.0	In the US, we have plenty of vaccines.
0:02.9	Our biggest challenge is getting more of them to more people.
0:06.3	Of course, lots of other countries around the world are at a very different place in
0:10.1	the pandemic.
0:11.1	Fears of a coronavirus catastrophe in Indonesia as the Delta variant fuels record infections
0:16.9	amid a shortage of oxygen and vaccines.
0:20.1	Indonesia is setting records for daily cases.
0:22.8	South Africa is dealing with a surge too.
0:25.4	People flocking to labs to get tested for COVID-19 as the third wave grips the country.
0:30.5	And in Bangladesh this week, the government locked down the capital.
0:34.6	Hospital sacrosb angladesh are being overwhelmed with new COVID-19 cases and the daily deaths
0:39.7	have more than doubled.
0:41.6	Health experts are alarmed by the surge in infections.
0:44.7	So much of this is being fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant, which has only
0:49.9	increased the pressure on vaccine-rich countries to help those without an adequate supply.
0:54.9	The COVID pandemic cannot be addressed by a single country.
1:00.8	We have to work on this together.
1:04.2	Linda Thomas Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United Nations, told NPR that the US
1:09.5	is still working to convince other countries to weigh vaccine patents, which the Biden
1:14.7	administration argues will boost vaccine production around the world.
1:18.4	The US and its allies are also starting to send about 1 billion doses to Latin America,
1:24.6	Africa, and Asia.
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