join us this week is lawrence gostin, the o'neill institute for global health law director. we are here to talk about the world health organization. thank you for your time. guest: thank you for having me. host: let's start with the organization itself. when it comes to worldwide vaccinations, what role will they play? guest: unfortunately, it hasn't had the impact it needs to have. basically, it started a facility called the act accelerator. there is a part of the act accelerator that is focused entirely on vaccines. it's basically a partnership between who and a big global alliance that works on vaccinations in particular childhood vaccinations. it promised to secure enough doses and distribute doses free to all low income countries. it promised to vaccinate 20% of the population of low income countries by the end of the year. that is too low of a name. that would be far too low. it might not even meet the 20% mark. it doesn't look like it's going to. currently, less than 1% of the doses in the world have been administered in low income countries with the vast proportion g

join us this week is lawrence gostin, the o'neill institute for global health law director. we are here to talk about the world health organization. thank you for your time. guest:

join us this week is lawrence gostin, the o'neill institute for global health law director.are here to talk about the world health organization. thank you for your time. guest: thank you for having me. host: let's start with the organization itself. when it comes to worldwide vaccinations, what role will they play? guest: unfortunately, it hasn't had the impact it needs to have. basically, it started a facility called the act accelerator. there is a part of the act accelerator that is focused entirely on vaccines. it's basically a partnership between who and a big global alliance that works on vaccinations in particular childhood vaccinations. it promised to secure enough doses and distribute doses free to all low income countries. it promised to vaccinate 20% of the population of low income countries by the end of the year. that is too low of a name. that would be far too low. it might not even meet the 20% mark. it doesn't look like it's going to. currently, less than 1% of the doses in the world have been administered in low income countries with the vast proportion given

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