22 min
Who can't get vaccinated? The Good,The Rights and The Ugly
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Thousands of people around the world don’t have access to COVID-19 vaccines. Oxfam has estimated that at the current rate, it will take poorer countries around 57 years to vaccinate all their populations.
Among those who are at risk of exclusion are stateless people and refugees.
Why can’t everyone get vaccinated? How effective is COVAX? This week, host Wade McElwain is joined by Matthew Saltmarsh, United Nations Senior External Relations Officer and Spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency, Bridget Wooding, Migration Director of the Caribbean Migrants’ Observatory, and Ottoline Spearman, Research Assistant at the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion.
Thousands of people around the world don’t have access to COVID-19 vaccines. Oxfam has estimated that at the current rate, it will take poorer countries around 57 years to vaccinate all their populations.
Among those who are at risk of exclusion are stateless people and refugees.
Why can’t everyone get vaccinated? How effective is COVAX? This week, host Wade McElwain is joined by Matthew Saltmarsh, United Nations Senior External Relations Officer and Spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency, Bridget Wooding, Migration Director of the Caribbean Migrants’ Observatory, and Ottoline Spearman, Research Assistant at the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion.
22 min