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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. One year into the pandemic, guest host Astra Taylor

interviewed a child Prabala, coordinator of Access IBSA, which campaigns for access to medicines in

India, Brazil, and South Africa. At that point, there were already multiple highly effective vaccines

in a growing movement fighting for free universal access. As Prabala warned in that episode,

the fact that the coronavirus rapidly mutates, made it imperative that the vaccine be released

worldwide on the basis of need, not ability to pay. Now, one year since our last interview,

Astra reconnected with Prabala. Delta, Omicron, and the new Omicron variant BA2 have proven advocates,

including Prabala, depressingly correct. Omicron in its variations, Prabala explains, have changed

the COVID game because only mRNA vaccines are truly effective against the now-dominant strains

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