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In 2019, 400,000 people around the world died of malaria, but it may never reach that high of a number again. Early trials of a new vaccine have been shown to be 70% effective in children.

This is not the first vaccine that has attempted to fight the deadly mosquito transmitted disease, but it is the only one that has had this level of efficacy. This news comes when COVID-19 vaccines are dominated in international discussion. Some wealthier nations, most notably the United States, have prioritized vaccinating their own people first. This week, however, the Biden administration did announce it would be sharing its stockpile

of AstraZeneca doses. Other countries, like China and Russia, have been shipping their vaccines

around the world, though some have questioned their efficacy. Many poor countries have worried

that they might wait years for their people to be vaccinated and be left with other countries' lower quality leftovers.

This news also comes as scientists have begun thinking through the ways that MRNA technology, which was used to develop the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, might be used to combat other diseases.

We want to discuss the good news about the malaria vaccine, how this will affect

Christian humanitarian work around the world, and what it looks like to be a good

neighbor when it comes to vaccine distribution.

We're listening to Quick to Listen, where we go beyond hashtags and hot takes, discuss a major cultural event.

I'm Morgan Lee.

And I'm Ted Olson.

I'm editorial director at Christianity today. All right. Wow. More vaccine talk, but a lot of it really great news again. So Ted, what are your initial reactions to all of this news?

You know, you see kind of the same thing we saw on some of the COVID news, where there's

announcement of a very, what seems to be extremely exciting test results.

And then there's, you know, the kind of media, I don't know, backlash is the wrong word,

but there's fears about getting too happy about these

things. And there's a number of articles that are, no, don't. It's a long way to go. It's a long way to go.

But the idea that there may be a vaccine that can address multiple kinds of malaria,

boy, that just made me so happy. This is one of the things where being Christianity

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