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How COVID vaccines shaped 2021 in eight powerful charts

The extraordinary vaccination of more than four billion people, and the lack of access for many others, were major forces this year — while Omicron’s arrival complicated things further.
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A year ago, vaccine drives against COVID-19 were just beginning. Now, more than 4.4 billion people have had one or more dose — about 56% of the world population. The vaccination of so many in such a short space of time, so soon after the unparalleled rapid development of the vaccines, has saved huge numbers of lives and is a triumph for science and research.

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Nature 600, 580-583 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03686-x

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