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17 May Dean Baker, senior economist at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), retweeted on a New York Times ( NYT ) piece on vaccinating the world that completely ignored the vaccines developed by China and Russia. Experts believe that both of the countries have developed effective vaccines against the coronavirus, which have slowed the spread and reduced hospitalisations and deaths. Therefore, it was imperative to consider the production of their vaccines while discussing world immunisation against the virus. The second point the article misses, experts opine, is the need for open-source technologies. The idea is not just...
