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The United States needs to support the expansion of vaccine manufacturing both domestically and abroad. It needs to help build that capacity, provide training for personnel, and relax export restrictions on supplies, reagents, and chemicals that go into manufacturing vaccines.
This needs to be a global partnership among the wealthy nations to coordinate all of the responses needed. We need to substantially reduce the burden of disease for humanitarian purposes and reduce transmission of the virus for self-interest to prevent the emergence of variants that could cause outbreaks in the United States.
We are already at a point in the United States where we have a surplus of vaccines. Obviously we expanded eligibility for children 12 to 15 years old, and this will increase our need. To date 1. This needs to be an urgent and collaborative global effort.
Can surplus vaccines be used as booster shots later? I believe that is one of the reasons why there has been some reluctance to donate a large number of doses. Many experts believe we will need them. The question is when. The Biden Administration justifiably has been focused on bringing the pandemic under control in the United States.
It does not want to put the United States into a shortage, which I think is reasonable. But the United States still need to be a global leader in addressing global vaccine inequities. The United States will need to maintain a supply of vaccine for potential booster doses. Now if there is a new variant that is driving the need for additional vaccine doses, we could use the current vaccine as a booster, but we may also need a new vaccine created specifically to target a variant.
Pandemic Data Initiative. This is one of the greatest scientific and medical achievements in recent history, but detailed vaccination data reveals that this rollout has not been without its shortcomings. This demographic data is disappointingly incomplete and rife with sampling biases due to the limited data points for which complete demographic data is available.
As we move into , government leaders and public health experts should focus on the collection and dissemination of accurate COVID demographic data as it will be a powerful tool to reduce disease spread and increase vaccine uptake. Reporting frequency, definitions, and even the types of data released have yet to be standardized and mandated by federal agencies. Even some leaders have stopped pursuing health and data-driven decision-making in the face of surging COVID cases presenting all-time high case numbers in the United States.
With viral variants, particularly Delta and Omicron, responsible for much of the increased spread during , it becomes even more imperative that everyone around the world get vaccinated. Better data can help us identify areas of need at a national and sub-national level to better distribute resources and craft communication.
We will need increased support of sequencing efforts in to continue locating and stopping new, more deadly variants, before they can spread. In fact, most public health data infrastructure remains in dire need of increased financial and physical support. Staff cannot be expected to focus on data, however essential it may be, when there are not enough hospital beds, PPE, tests, or computers to handle the load.
We need to take this pandemic seriously. It has been an exhausting two years. For everyone. While working with the team at the CRC on pandemic data has been one of the most rewarding challenges of my career, we are all ready for this to be over. See, Play and Learn Images. Research Clinical Trials Journal Articles. Resources Find an Expert.
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