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Celebrating medical students in Bangalore, India: "Nobody is safe until everyone is safe"
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A week before Christmas Canada had a present for the world: a few million cans of the most coveted fabric money can buy today.
A government representative said in a video conference that the country will donate surplus vaccine doses to poorer countries that threatened to go empty in the struggle to distribute the vaccine.
Members of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Gavi vaccine alliance, the heads of three large pharmaceutical companies and health experts from all over the world attended the event.
The mood was hopeful.
Britain had just started its vaccination campaign.
An end to the pandemic seemed within reach.
Then a journalist asked if Canada, which has secured more vaccine per capita than any other country, plans to deliver the vaccine doses immediately.
Or only when a large proportion of Canadians have been immunized?
At what threshold is the country ready to give up some of its vaccine wealth?
The Presenter paused.
One must understand, she hesitantly began, that these were extraordinary times.
She didn't want to commit.
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