The contrasts are startling. There are enough COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate all eligible adults, teens and adolescents, in the U.S. several times over 鈥� yet health officials here have to launch ad campaigns, even knock on doors, to convince people to get a shot.
In other parts of the world, the vaccine won鈥檛 come for months or years. In Zambia, only has been fully vaccinated, about 68,000 people out of nearly 18 million.
Host Robin Young talks to , who teaches medicine at the University of Zambia in Lusaka where he also treats patients. She also talks to director of Global Public Policy and Social Change at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Seed Global Health.
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