Vaccination Worldwide: Strategies, Distribution and Challenges
Abstract
The Coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus represents an unprecedented crisis for our planet. It is a bane of the \"uber connected world that we live in that this virus has affected almost all countries and caused mortality and economic upheaval at a scale whose effects are going to be felt for generations to come. While we can all be buoyed at the pace at which vaccines have been developed and brought to market, there are still challenges ahead for all countries to get their populations vaccinated equitably and effectively. This paper provides an overview of ongoing immunization efforts in various countries. In this early draft, we have identified a few key factors that we use to review different countries' current COVID-19 immunization strategies and their strengths and draw conclusions so that policymakers worldwide can learn from them. Our paper focuses on processes related to vaccine approval, allocation and prioritization, distribution strategies, population to vaccine ratio, vaccination governance, accessibility and use of digital solutions, and government policies. The statistics and numbers are dated as per the draft date [June 24th, 2021].
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@article{arxiv.2107.14139,
title = {Vaccination Worldwide: Strategies, Distribution and Challenges},
author = {Chirag Samal and Kasia Jakimowicz and Krishnendu Dasgupta and Aniket Vashishtha and Francisco O. and Arunakiry Natarajan and Haris Nazir and Alluri Siddhartha Varma and Tejal Dahake and Amitesh Anand Pandey and Ishaan Singh and John Sangyeob Kim and Mehrab Singh Gill and Saurish Srivastava and Orna Mukhopadhyay and Parth Patwa and Qamil Mirza and Sualeha Irshad and Sheshank Shankar and Rohan Iyer and Rohan Sukumaran and Ashley Mehra and Anshuman Sharma and Abhishek Singh and Maurizio Arseni and Sethuraman T and Saras Agrawal and Vivek Sharma and Ramesh Raskar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.14139},
year = {2021}
}