Global Failure to Equitably Distribute COVID Vaccines (2021)

While wealthy nations hoarded doses and administered boosters, the COVAX initiative fell billions of doses short. By late 2021, fewer than 5% of people in low-income African countries had received a single dose, allowing new variants to emerge and prolonging the pandemic for everyone — a failure that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called a "catastrophic moral failure."