*Gordon Brown calls for urgent action to avert "Covid vaccine waste disaster."*

It seems that the production rate is about to be over a billion doses per month, this fall. 100 million is therefore around 3 days' production. That is not "staggering." At the same time, if they could vaccinate 50 million people, it would be a great shame to waste them.

12 billion doses is enough to vaccinate just about everyone on Earth who can be vaccinated and is willing to be vaccinated. (Covid-19 vaccines are not approved as safe for children, under 12.) That forecast, if it occurs, will be very good news.

But we can't vaccinate everyone without an effective channel for the vaccines to reach people in countries that can't pay for them. Will greedy vaccine tycoons flog them as boosters, and keep poor countries unsafe?