it's not working, dr swaminathan., if it's lucky, it may get 3% of people in the poorest countries vaccinated by the end of the first half of this year — just 3%. we already, in the uk, have a figure of around 15% of the uk population vaccinated. in israel, they're up at 33, 34% of their people vaccinated. this idea that there is a fundamental inequity between the rich world and the poor, it is profound and it's utterly damaging to any notion that the world is acting together to conquer coronavirus. yes. i mean, you know, we knew that there would be a gap between supply and demand, particularly in the first months of the year. first of all, i think we should acknowledge the fact that we got to a registered vaccine 314 days after the public announcement of the whole genome sequence of the sars—cov—2 virus — that in itself is completely unexpected, so, you know, our expectations have also become higher. secondly, the early vaccines had 95% efficacy, again, something that nobody expected — our expectations of all vaccine