Political Smoke and Mirrors

We wrote a blog to cut through all the political smoke and mirrors to understand what happened at the G7 summit. Read our full analysis here. Vaccine ❌ The world needs 11 billion doses to tackle the pandemic. G7 leaders are sharing 870 million doses. But many are not actual vaccines but cash from previous pledges to buy doses that don't exist due to supply shortage. This was the case with Canada’s pledge of donating up to 100 million doses. It turned out that only 13 million of these were actual doses. The rest was an estimation of how many doses COVAX could’ve purchased with Canada’s previous investments. Canada is #1 in the world for both doses pre-purchased per person and percentage of the population with a first shot. All while many high-risk people in other countries, including frontline health workers, still don’t have their first shot. Can you help us remind Minister Anand that we should be racing against the virus and not other countries in our fight to end the pandemic? The tweet reads: We’re no.1 country to have pre-ordered the most doses per person and this adds to the global supply shortage. We must start sharing vaccines NOW. We have more than enough (x5 the amount we need). https://twitter.com/AnitaOakville/status/1403791994170847233?s=20

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