Having successfully sidestepped the first Covid wave, the government now faces a health emergency — only about 1% of its population is vaccinated so far — with the potential to disrupt the chip industry that dominates the local economy, and which is critical to an already-squeezed global supply.
Faced with a limited supply of shots, more countries are turning to an initially controversial strategy that’s now been vindicated by scientific studies: doubling or tripling the intervals between the first and second Covid vaccine dose.
Supply shortages during the pandemic have underscored the need for data accuracy, visibility and sharing across multiple parties within the healthcare system.
Differences in infectious substance classifications, packaging requirements and other shipping regulations between countries create significant supply-chain challenges — particularly when it comes to sourcing approved packaging for shipping COVID-19 samples in Southeast Asia.
Vaccination campaigns in the U.S. and some other countries are moving from mass demand to more targeted efforts to reach the hesitant — and doctors want easier ways to deliver shots.
For months, developed economies have hoarded COVID-19 vaccines and the raw materials needed to make them. Now, they’re being forced to act as an explosive outbreak in India raises the risk of new virus mutations that could threaten the wider world.
President Biden far surpassed his original goal of administering 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines within his first 100 days in office, but the initiative couldn’t have succeeded without a substantial manufacturing and logistics infrastructure backing it up.
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