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You don't have to deliver the vaccine into every community. People can travel to nearest next place that has it.

• danpalmer 6y ago
  This may be true for urban/suburban US/Europe/China/India, but this is not true for large parts of the world. There are parts of rural US/Australia for example where despite people having cars, they may need to take a plane to get to a vaccine treatment centre with enough density to get stock. They may not be able to afford that travel even if the vaccine is free. Much of the African population is spread over small communities where roads may not be reliable, let alone car access. If your minimum distributable unit is 10k vaccines, as it looks like it could be to begin with, that rules out a significant number of the population.
  • dbbk 6y ago
    There are still other vaccines in testing that will be more suitable for those parts of the world.
    • danpalmer 6y ago
      Yes and that's a good thing. I think it's still important to recognise that not everyone is as privileged as many of us here, and that an inclusive approach to distribution will be important for this vaccine.
      • thehappypm 6y ago
        Viruses also, naturally, take longer to reach harder to reach areas. Basically, if the vaccine will have trouble reaching a community, the virus will, too.