Israel’s vaccine apartheid

https://springmag.ca/israels-vaccine-apartheid
Post Date: January 6, 2021

Op-ed | January 6, 2021

By Karen Rodman

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The COVID-19 vaccine has raised the hope for universal protection from the deadly virus. But its distribution is turning into a vaccine apartheid—from countries of the Global South volunteering for vaccine trials but not having access to the final products, to Israel leading the way to vaccinating its citizens while denying the vaccine to Palestinians.

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