Only 0.3% of the vaccine doses administered globally have been given in the 29 poorest countries, home to about 9% of the world's population
FILE — Health workers wait to enter the vaccine station at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 7, 2021. As developing countries — joined by President Joe Biden — push to set aside patents on COVID vaccines, experts say it won’t work without sharing technological know-how. (Gulshan Khan/The New York Times).
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