From the article:
Amanda Glassman agrees. Last week she and colleagues from the Center for Global Development published a report on the Covid vaccine effort that compares it to previous global health endeavors, including the smallpox eradication campaign and the rollout of childhood vaccination programs worldwide. The report does not gloss over the Covid effort’s shortcomings for low-income countries. But it does shine a light on its successes in middle-income nations.
“Look at the curves on the delivery of doses and it’s so close in time to what was happening in high-income countries,” Glassman said in an interview. “There’s still an income gradient but that income gradient is over a period of weeks and months, not years and decades.”
“There’s been just an enormous amount of negative coverage on the global vaccine rollout effort. Much of the criticism is entirely merited but it lost the big-picture perspective,” she said. “This is actually the most important public health program or effort in history.”
