The Davos Agenda 2021

Why philanthropists must support a free COVID vaccine

A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country's first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South Africa, June 24, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2PFH91YGNN

South Africa has secured just 1.5 million doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine. Image: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Rosalind McKenna
Public Health Programme, Open Society Foundations
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