Think Tanks
 
 
Brookings
http://www.brookings.edu/
Accessed 12 Feb 2022
Future Development
Why global vaccine equity is the prescription for a full recovery
Indermit Gill and Michele Ruta
Friday, February 11, 2022

Testimony
Improving access to quality public education in Africa
Rebecca Winthrop
Friday, February 11, 2022
 
 
Center for Global Development [to 12 Feb 2022]
https://www.cgdev.org/
Accessed 12 Feb 2022
COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Rollout in Historical Perspective
Publication
February 9, 2022
This paper explores the historical record in the development and deployment of vaccines globally and puts the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in that context. Although far more can be done and should be done to speed equitable access to vaccines in the COVID-19 response, it is worth noting the revolutionary speed of both the vaccine development and the diffusion process, and the potential good news that this signals for the future of pandemic preparedness and response.

New Study: COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Fastest in Global History
February 9, 2022
WASHINGTON—The COVID-19 vaccine rollout so far has been the fastest in global history and unprecedented in scale, according to a new study released today from the Center for Global Development, which also emphasized the considerable global inequality in access to vaccines to date.
Researchers at the global think tank assessed how vaccines have been developed and deployed against 15 older infectious diseases and compared those efforts to the response to COVID-19.

The COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Was the Fastest in Global History, but Low-Income Countries Were Left Behind
February 9, 2022
The reaction to COVID-19 has been record-breaking. Today we release a paper that reports on the development and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in historical perspective, and it suggests a pattern of unparalleled, but still deeply inequitable, progress.
Amanda Glassman, Charles Kenny and George Yang

The Vaccine Mark-Up: Counting More in ODA than We Paid for Vaccines is Illogical, Immoral, and Unpopular
February 7, 2022
Someone in a high-income country is 11x more likely to have been fully inoculated than someone in a low-income country. We set out here how the OECD plans to count COVID vaccines, why this reduces the UK’s overall spending on ODA, and how MPs think we should count them.
Euan Ritchie, Anthony McDonnell and Ranil Dissanayake
 
 
Chatham House [to 12 Feb 2022]
https://www.chathamhouse.org/
Accessed 12 Feb 2022
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CSIS
https://www.csis.org/
Accessed 12 Feb 2022
Commentary
China May Move beyond Zero-Covid. That Could Benefit Us All.
February 9, 2022 | By J. Stephen Morrison, Scott Kennedy

Kaiser Family Foundation
https://www.kff.org/search/?post_type=press-release
Accessed 12 Feb 2022
February 10, 2022 News Release
Telehealth Accounted for 8% of Outpatient Visits More Than a Year into COVID-19 Pandemic, Suggesting a More Permanent Shift in How Patients Receive Care
Telehealth use skyrocketed during the early months of the pandemic. While it has since decreased somewhat from that high, it still represents a much more substantial share of health care than before COVID, a new KFF-Epic Research analysis finds. From March through August 2021, 8% of all outpatient visits were…