{
  "id": 15745616,
  "title": "Faster, fairer COVID-19 vaccine rollout could have saved millions of lives, modeling reveals",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/faster-fairer-covid-19-vaccine-rollout-could-have-saved-millions-of",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-20T13:00:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-faster-fairer-covid-vaccine-rollout.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Beginning the global COVID-19 vaccine rollout 100 days after the virus was sequenced could have saved more than 8 million lives by the end of 2021, most of them in lower-middle-income countries, according to modeling evidence brought together in a new policy brief from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). The authors argue that fair…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}