COVID-19 Vaccines and Pacific Access by Kori Koverman, Hawai'i (Curation Number Two)

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COVID-19 Vaccines and Pacific Access

By Kori Koverman from Hawaii 


Video- Local Australian vaccine backfires


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmL8ZpsaQVo 


Video- Vaccine will take years to be administered to Pacific Islanders population


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q12QtJTRTk 


Article- Helping LDC’s to receive vaccines 

https://trade4devnews.enhancedif.org/en/op-ed/access-denied-ensuring-vaccines-world%20s-poorest-countries


Article- New Zealand will buy enough vaccines for entire population 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-newzealand-idUSKBN2B008J 


I choose to focus my mini curation on the COVID-19 vaccines. In the countries and territories in the Pacific Ocean that are well known and populated have access to the vaccines, such as New Zealand and Australia. On the other hand in places like Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu, the vaccines are few and far between. In these countries and territories since they have less resources and aren't as populated they are not as prioritized. This is interesting to me because people in the US are starting to take the vaccine and I am skeptical about if it truly works and if people in other countries have faith in it. The research I found takes on several different opinions about the vaccines which still make me have concerns.

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