Covid-19 Vaccine Access is a Right, Not a Privilege

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image People wait in a queue to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at an inoculation center, in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, February 25, 2022. © 2022 Suvra Kanti Das/Sipa via AP Images This piece is the fourth in a series marking the two year anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic. Find more of our work documenting the global response to the coronavirus here. As we enter another year of this wretched pandemic that has killed more than 6 million the divide between the vaccine haves and have-nots is not only huge, it’s growing. Across the US and Europe, where governments outbid others…

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