While Australians line up for COVID boosters, low vaccination rates in poor countries continue to cost lives
- Written by Deborah Gleeson, Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University

Two and a half years into the pandemic, more than 12 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, and more than 5 million are being administered each day. People in many high-income countries, including Australia, are now receiving their third or fourth dose. But the distribution of vaccines globally is still vastly...