To bring in some good news: Uganda successfully managed the outbreak by ring vaccination. Also, all kinds of gouvernment agencies and private pharmaceutical companies co-operated to get the the vaccine to the ground. I somewhere read a Swiss researcher’s quote that she never before even heard about doing the process from experimental treatment in the animal model system over human trials to admission in such a short time. Volunteers to test the vaccination did their part, too.
The sad part is that the globally available amount of vaccine is still not sufficient, and the second vaccine which now is admissible needs a different strategy of vaccination - which lead to (DRC’s? Can’t remember!) government to reject it’s inclusion in the vaccination program. However, apparently the dosage applied in DRC is twice as high as has been tested effective in West Africa - so cutting it by half doubles the number of available shots.
The whole campaign is highly impeded by the ongoing civil war in eastern DRC. As far as I know, the finances for this still come from our electronic devices: rare earths are fueling the conflict.
