It’s Time To Vaccinate the Whole World Against Covid-19. Now.

No one’s safe from aggressive new variants until the whole world is

Clive Thompson
Elemental
Published in
6 min readNov 26, 2021

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Vaccination rates are incredibly low in much of the world, as this interactive map by the New York Times shows. Darker regions have high vaccination rates; lighter regions have low vaccination rates.

By now, you may have heard the alarming news out of South Africa: Scientists there have tracked a new variant of Covid-19, and it has way more mutations than Delta.

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Clive Thompson
Elemental

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net