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Review
. 2021 Jul 3:11:03086.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.11.03086.

International COVID-19 vaccine inequality amid the pandemic: Perpetuating a global crisis?

Moosa Tatar  1   2 , Jalal Montazeri Shoorekchali  3 , Mohammad Reza Faraji  4 , Fernando A Wilson  1   2   5
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Review

International COVID-19 vaccine inequality amid the pandemic: Perpetuating a global crisis?

Moosa Tatar et al. J Glob Health. .
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Competing interest: The authors have completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest Form (available upon request from the corresponding author), and have no conflicts to declare.

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Figure 1
COVID-19 vaccination Lorenz curve. The cumulative proportion of vaccines is shown on the vertical (Y) axis, and the cumulative proportion of the population is shown on the horizontal (X) axis. When the vaccine distribution is perfectly equal, and the proportions of vaccines and population are equal, then equality exists, and the Lorenz curve is a straight diagonal line with a slope of 1 (45 degrees); otherwise, the Lorenz curve lies underneath the diagonal line and indicates inequality exists.
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