professor terry nolan is head of the vaccine and immunisation research group at the doherty institutemes to vaccine inequality. access to supply is most important, though. the international initiative which is called covax, which has been signed up to by many of the countries and many rich governments, to contribute vaccines into an international pool, is a really important step in making those vaccines available to countries around the world. first of all, everyone should, i think, take a cold shower about all of this issue about how much of a difference is there between the vaccines. by and large, all of the vaccines are doing a very good job at controlling covid. certainly the ancestral or the initial wuhan strain, but even now with the delta strain, which is much more elusive, they're still doing a good job. there are questions of availability, of certainty about that, in some of the vaccines — for example some of the chinese vaccines, some from cuba and others where there isn't yet enough transparency in the data, either clinical trial data or data following their rollout in popu