Five of the eight countries from which the Biden administration has suspended travel have pumped the brakes on new vaccine shipments, even as cases have increased, because the countries have more doses than health officials can administer.
A recent survey that spans five West African countries found that 6 in 10 people were vaccine hesitant-compared with 13 percent or less in France, the United Kingdom, and other parts of Europe and 27 percent in the United States.
Another study of six different African countries found that less than half of respondents said they would definitely or probably get the vaccine.
As the World Bank notes, concerns around efficacy, safety, and side effects for the vaccine are commonplace, as is distrust in vaccines developed by Western countries.
The dominant media narrative that suggests Western governments are hoarding vaccines also overlooks the early investments by the United States and the United Kingdom to ensure their citizens had access to vaccines that helped facilitate access to vaccines.
These countries invested millions of dollars to help finance the vaccines on the condition that their citizens-whose tax dollars provided the down payment-would have access.
The next time you hear from the mainstream media about the rapaciousness of the West when it comes to COVID vaccines, remember the details they're leaving out.
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/the-omicron-factor-the-media-wont-tell-you-about/
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