Yes, Edna, whilst the Titanic was sinking, only very few rich people succeeded at getting a seat on the lifeboats, but nonetheless the orchestra kept playing and their music gave Jack the inspiration and courage to be “He who saves a life saves the world entire”

• Swee Kheng Khor, Three Vaccine Assumptions for 2021, Project Syndicate, February 23, 2021

As COVID-19 vaccination programs scale up globally, they must be able to withstand reality. Policymakers need to incorporate three realistic assumptions into their immunization plans: delays are inevitable, inequality will increase, and vaccine procurement could be a proxy for geopolitics. [Read more].

Queen’s Road East

People queue on September 1, 1961 to be vaccinated against cholera in front of a medical centre next to the 舊灣仔郵政局 (Old Wan Chai Post Office) in 香港 (Hong Kong), which was at the time a Crown Colony. Photo: AFP.

Overqueueing

In this April 14, 1947 picture, a long line winds toward the entrance to Morrisania Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City, where doctors are inoculating against smallpox. In an attempt to halt the spread of the disease, officials said city residents were being vaccinated at the rate of eight a minute. Photo © AP.

A Passage to Kandahar

An Afghan health worker (left) administers the polio vaccine to a child, as other members of the vaccination team wearing burqas look on, in Arghandab District of Kandahar province. Photo: AFP/Jawed Tanveer.

What They Didn’t Teach You at School

Police are investigating three pharmaceutical companies that might have been involved in sales of expired or improperly stored vaccines Police in eastern China have arrested 37 people for illegal sales of vaccines in a widening scandal that again has raised questions about product safety in China and a possible government cover-up. [Read more].

• Stuart Leavenworth, China’s vaccine scandal widens as 37 arrested over illegal sales, The Guardian, March 23, 2016

Newly born babies receive vaccines at a hospital in 阿克苏 (Ākèsù), China. Police have arrested 37 people for sales of vaccines that might have expired. Photo: Stringer/China/Reuters.