PARIS (AP) - The global initiative to share coronavirus vaccines fairly already scaled back its pledge to the world's poor once.
Now, to meet even that limited promise, COVAX would have to deliver more than a million doses every hour until the end of the year in some of the world's most challenging places.That seems unlikely: Gavi, the vaccine alliance that helps run COVAX, warned in internal documents that a substantial number of doses might only show up in late 2022 or even 2023 as wealthy countries drag out their donations while locking in contracts for new shots by the hundreds of millions.RELATED: Nearly 1,000 Facebook, Instagram accounts deactivated over COVID-19 misinformationEven if the U.N.-backed initiative secured the doses and.