Vaccine equity gets a boost

French President Emmanuel Macron joined several African leaders on Thursday to kick off a planned $1 billion project to accelerate the rollout of vaccines across Africa, after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaping inequalities in access to them. Host Marco Werman speaks with Professor Peter Hotez, co-Director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, about the latest effort to provide vaccine equity for all.

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