{"id":3878,"date":"2023-06-14T16:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2023-06-14T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:23:09","slug":"more-than-50-of-covid-19-deaths-could-have-been-prevented-with-better-global-vaccine-distribution-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/06\/14\/more-than-50-of-covid-19-deaths-could-have-been-prevented-with-better-global-vaccine-distribution-says-study\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 50% of COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented with better global vaccine distribution, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2023-06-covid-deaths-global-vaccine.html\">Medical Express<\/a> Better access to vaccines could have prevented more than 50% of COVID-19 deaths in 20 lower income countries, according to a new paper in\u00a0<em>Nature Communications<\/em>\u00a0co-authored by Northeastern professor Alessandro Vespignani. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The estimation that &#8220;thousands and thousands&#8221; of lives were lost to vaccine inequity was a &#8220;punch in the stomach,&#8221; says Vespignani, director of Northeastern&#8217;s Network Science Program and Sternberg Family Distinguished Professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have a clear solution to the problem,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We need to have a different system in place so that we have more vaccines and a more equitable distribution across the world,&#8221; Vespignani says. &#8220;There is a high price for this inequity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vespignani and six other scientists, including Northeastern research associate professor of physics Matteo Chinazzi, used a computational epidemic model to estimate how many deaths would have been averted in the 20\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/countries\/\">countries<\/a>, including Kenya, Afghanistan and Bolivia, if they had received the COVID-19 vaccines at the same time as the U.S. and other high income countries and in comparable quantities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2023-06-covid-deaths-global-vaccine.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"WzQvLSW DTp k\">WzQvLSW DTp k<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Express Better access to vaccines could have prevented more than 50% of COVID-19 deaths in 20 lower income countries, according to a new paper in\u00a0Nature Communications\u00a0co-authored by Northeastern professor Alessandro Vespignani. The estimation that &#8220;thousands and thousands&#8221; of lives were lost to vaccine inequity was a &#8220;punch in the stomach,&#8221; says Vespignani, director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}