The government of Mongolia promised its people a COVID free summer; Bahrain said there would be a return to normal life by June 2021. The island nation of Seychelles aimed to jump start its economy this summer.
All three put their faith in the easily accessible Chinese -made vaccines, but instead of freedom from coronavirus, all three countries are now battling a surge in coronavirus infections. The Chinese vaccines they relied on have been ineffective.
Disparities such as these would create a world in which three types of countries emerge from the pandemic. The wealthy nations that used their resources to procure Pfizer and Moderna shots, the poorer countries that are unable to immunize a majority of their citizens and those that are fully inoculated but only partially protected.Margaret Keenan was the first person to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Coventry, Britain on December 8, 2020.
Globally, daily confirmed cases and deaths have been trending downward since April. To date, it is safe to say, vaccines seem to be working well. One real world study published in March, of the people in Denmark prioritized for the Pfizer vaccine found it was 90 percent effective among healthcare workers and 64 percent effective among residents of long term hospital care facilities with a median age of 84.
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