COVID-19
This statistic shows why equitable vaccine rollout is so important
Around 1.3 million lives could have been saved with more equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution, according to the People’s Vaccine Alliance.
Annalisa is a reporter at Quartz. She hails from Bergamo (Italy) but has worked and lived in Paris and Delhi before settling in the US (for now). She was the founding editor of art, culture and lifestyle portal The India Tube and a writer and editor at Narratively, Global Voices, Timbuktu, Motherland, W+K Delhi, and Fabrica. She holds a master's degree in semiotics and a bachelor's degree in mass communication from the University of Bologna.
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