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Latin American scientists join the coronavirus vaccine race: ‘No one’s coming to rescue us’

Researchers fear that breakthroughs from abroad will be too slow or inequitably shared to benefit the global south.
  1. Emiliano Rodríguez Mega

    1. Emiliano Rodríguez Mega is a science journalist in Mexico City.

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Gustavo Cabral de Miranda is used to people doubting him. As a child, he often had to put his schoolwork on hold to help his family, selling ice cream and mangoes at fairs or working at a butcher’s shop in Bahia, in northeastern Brazil. By the time he decided, at 22 years old, to stop this work and study to become a scientist, others were telling him that academic life would not suit him: “It wasn’t for people like me,” he remembers them saying.

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Nature 582, 470-471 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01756-0

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