{"id":632,"date":"2021-02-03T15:44:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infrastructurebrief.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2023-12-18T19:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T19:22:27","slug":"the-sun-will-power-large-parts-of-africas-covid-19-vaccination-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infrastructurebrief.com\/the-sun-will-power-large-parts-of-africas-covid-19-vaccination-program\/","title":{"rendered":"The sun will power large parts of Africa\u2019s Covid-19 vaccination program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"cyhZ9\">There\u2019s hope that some industrialized countries will achieve near-universal vaccination against Covid-19 in the coming months. Yet the effort to vaccinate even the most essential workers in developing countries has only just begun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cyhZ9\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/24\/health\/herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus.html\">current estimates<\/a>, achieving herd immunity (to current strains) will require at least 75% of the world\u2019s population to be vaccinated. Some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/vaccination#diphtheria-tetanus-and-pertussis-vaccine\">developing countries<\/a> haven\u2019t reached that level of coverage even for common vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and polio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cyhZ9\">Many low-income countries will soon get vaccine access through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavi.org\/vaccineswork\/covax-explained\">COVAX initiative<\/a>. The first doses distributed in sub-Saharan Africa under COVAX were injected at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavi.org\/news\/media-room\/first-covid-19-covax-vaccine-doses-administered-africa\">end of February<\/a>. Around\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afro.who.int\/news\/africa-needs-timely-access-safe-and-effective-covid-19-vaccines\">30 million more doses<\/a>\u00a0are expected to arrive in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cyhZ9\">But the success of national distribution efforts depends on a functional\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.path.org\/articles\/vaccine-cold-chain-q\/\">cold chain<\/a>. This is an uninterrupted system of storage, transport, and delivery of vaccines at low temperatures all the way from national warehouses to local clinics and into the arms of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cyhZ9\">Most vaccines must be stored between 2\u00b0C and 8\u00b0C. This is the case for polio and measles vaccines, as well as the Covid-19 vaccines from Johnson &amp; Johnson and AstraZeneca-Oxford. Others have temperature requirements that are notoriously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/11\/17\/935563377\/why-does-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-need-to-be-kept-colder-than-antarctica\">more difficult<\/a>\u00a0to maintain. The Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna must be stored at between -25\u00b0C (-13\u00b0F) and -15\u00b0C (5\u00b0F). The Pfizer-BioNTech requires -70\u00b0C (-94\u00b0F), but can be kept between -25\u00b0C and -15\u00b0C for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/covid-19\/info-by-product\/pfizer\/downloads\/storage-summary.pdf\">up to two weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aOCxk inline-slot DR5DE _12qXl _1bgW-\">\n<div class=\"article-content-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s hope that some industrialized countries will achieve near-universal vaccination against Covid-19 in the coming months. Yet the effort to vaccinate even the most essential workers in developing countries has only just begun. By\u00a0current estimates, achieving herd immunity (to current strains) will require at least 75% of the world\u2019s population to be vaccinated. 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