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. 2021 Jul 10;398(10295):97-99.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01323-4. Epub 2021 Jun 8.

Epidemiology, not geopolitics, should guide COVID-19 vaccine donations

Thomas J Bollyky  1 , Christopher J L Murray  2 , Robert C Reiner Jr  2
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Epidemiology, not geopolitics, should guide COVID-19 vaccine donations

Thomas J Bollyky et al. Lancet. .
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Estimated COVID-19 mortality rate per 100 000 people from June 1, 2021, to Aug 31, 2021, plotted by country Estimates are based on the current parameterisation of the baseline Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation COVID-19 model, updated with recently published estimates of COVID-19 vaccine supply, meta-analyses of vaccine effectiveness by SARS-CoV-2 variant, country-specific vaccine hesitancy, and immunity breakthrough and increased infectiveness of variants as reported by Faria and colleagues. SARS-CoV-2 variant distributions are from open access sources for the USA, Europe, Brazil, and South Africa.
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