COVAX assigned early Pfizer shots to vaccination leaders UK, UAE Dose-sharing methodology doesn’t check states’ vaccine coverage Vaccine alliance Gavi is proposing changes – internal document UK was among few countries that had Pfizer freezers, Gavi says Gavi began to spend $25 million on cold-chain freezers in August BRUSSELS, Sept 27 (Reuters) – In March, as wealthy Britain led the world in vaccination rates and almost half its people had received a shot, the organisation meant to ensure fair global access to COVID-19 vaccines allotted the country over half a million doses from its supplies. By contrast Botswana, which hadn’t even started its vaccination drive, was assigned 20,000 doses from the same batch of millions of Pfizer mRNA vaccines, according to publicly available documents detailing COVAX’s allocations. Other poorer nations, with fledgling vaccination drives at best, also received fewer shots than Britain. Rwanda and Togo were each allotted about […]