"It's outrageous ethically, morally, scientifically," said Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist with the World Health Organization, on global vaccine inequities. In some countries with high vaccination rates - including the United States, Britain and Israel - coronavirus numbers are decreasing or plateauing. Many developing nations argue that the United States and other wealthy Western countries could rapidly boost global vaccine supplies by temporarily suspending pharmaceutical companies' intellectual property rights. Countries in the Caribbean - which consider themselves a "third border" with the United States - have expressed particular frustration with Washington. "But from the United States, disappointedly, we have not had one dose of vaccines," he said.
