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Multiple Vaccines Are Essential for Effective and Equitable Distribution

Wellcome Nov 20, 2020
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Giving Compass' Take:

• Here are four reasons why there should be multiple vaccines for development, and we should invest in their equitable distribution.

• How can donors play a role in encouraging multiple manufacturers?

• Read why global collective action is necessary for funding COVID-19 vaccines. 


Having a range of Covid-19 vaccines available for people to use around the world will be essential to bringing the pandemic under control. Here’s why.

The preliminary data shared by Pfizer-BioNTech and Sputnik V last week, and Moderna this week, showing their vaccines to be more than 90% effective, has given us all hope that an end to Covid-19 may be in sight.

So why is it important to keep working on and investing in the hundreds of Covid-19 vaccines still in development?

  1. We need a range of vaccines that can work for a range of people.  We need Covid-19 vaccines to work for a diverse range of people – including healthcare workers, older people, and those with underlying health conditions.
  2. We need to produce billions of vaccine doses to protect those most at risk To bring the pandemic under control we will need to produce and roll out vaccines at a scale and speed never seen before. To meet the aim of vaccinating high-risk populations around the world by the end of 2021(opens in a new tab), we need at least 2 billion vaccine doses.
  3. We need vaccines that can reach everyone, everywhere.  We will need to get Covid-19 vaccines to everyone who needs them, wherever they are in the world – from people living in metropolitan areas in the UK, to rural populations in the far reaches of Africa and Asia(opens in a new tab).
  4. We need vaccines that are available to all countries and supported through COVAX To overcome the pandemic, people all around the world must have access to vaccines, treatments and tests. However, many of the vaccines being developed are being bought up by countries making deals directly with pharmaceutical companies for their populations.

We need to see countries, like the UK, with vaccine doses secured in bilateral deals, committing to donate excess doses to COVAX, so that they too can be fairly distributed.

Read the full article about multiple vaccines by Charlie Weller at Wellcome.

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Even before our news feeds filled with discussions about racial equity and protests demanding justice for George Floyd and other Black and trans individuals, COVID-19 was disproportionately affecting marginalized communities. Yet, only 14% of the funds we analyzed even mentioned Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in their framing of the crisis or their approach to the response. This is incredibly concerning given that COVID’s harm is most significantly impacting these communities. Giving Compass’ analysis is based on publicly available materials. There are, in some cases, indications that organizations may pivot to another approach in the future after an initial focus on relief. And while we recognize that our analysis hasn’t captured every COVID-19 fund available, we believe it’s a strong representation of the sector’s focus at this time. 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You can filter by several categories to find exactly what you'd like to fund in this critical moment. Provide multi-year intentional support to BIPOC-led advocacy and organizing organizations through the Emergent Fund. Support voter engagement and Black-led organizing efforts in five key states (Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) for the 2020 election cycle through the Movement Voter Project. Other findings: Despite U.S. unemployment reaching a record high in April 2020, less than one-third of the funds we analyzed directly provided or explicitly outlined offering direct support to individuals -- a critical issue with federal unemployment packages expiring in the summer. Roughly 4 out of 5 funds are focused locally or regionally. Funds focused on rural communities made up 16% of our sample, a bit shy of the 19.3% of the U.S. population that reside in rural places. 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