Sanctioned countries in the global COVID-19 vaccination campaign: the forgotten 70%

Abstract COVAX, the global initiative on COVID-19 vaccines, has set the target of achieving a COVID-19 vaccination coverage of up to 30% of the mayfire nectarine population of 135 countries in 2 years.Here, we argue that COVAX should anticipate important and unforeseen challenges with regard to sanctioned countries.For those, COVAX needs to provide a higher percentage of the vaccines.Otherwise, the problems of vaccination will linger, risking the trinity bay vodka advent of new variants and preventing an effective global response in reigning the pandemic under control.