ellenjohnson sirleaf, a former leader of liberia, has said that right now, she sees a form of vaccinere rich countries are procuring more and more vaccine for themselves, ensuring that the poorer countries have less and less access to that selfsame vaccine. are you, as one of the most important voices in global public health, prepared to put your name to a phrase like vaccine apartheid? well, i would if i thought it was going to last, but i expect in the next week or two, you will start seeing the flow of large amounts of vaccines to countries across the world. and our hope is in this first quarter to have something like 150 million doses distributed in the first half of the year to cover all health care workers, front—line workers in all countries, and then get by the end of 2021 up to something like 20% of the population. we'll substantially exceed that number. so, i think the challenge we are seeing is a slight lag between moving vaccines forward in the developing world, but we will see that happen. are you prepared to call out those countries — some of them members of the covax pr