COVID Apartheid

That's what President Hage Geingob of Namibia calls the global process of distributing COVID vaccination doses:  "COVID apartheid."

Namibia has given fewer than 3,000 COVID-19 jabs so far. This is a fraction of what a mass vaccination site in the United States, such as the Javits Center in New York City, administers each day.

In the United States, nearly 40% of the population has now gotten at least one dose of a vaccine. In Namibia, less than 0.1% of the population has gotten a shot.

The population of Namibia is about 2.5 million. 

It's nice to know that the US and other developed countries are forging ahead toward national herd immunity.  It's nice to know that COVAX is getting shots in arms.  

But just a glance at any vaccination data accumulator makes it clear that the new world is still a long way off.  No one has herd immunity until everyone has herd immunity.  Until then, we continue sailing west.