Combining state‐led distribution with a parallel market‐based distribution to improve COVID‐19 vaccine distribution

Abstract

In his article Extreme poverty first: An argument on the equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine in Peru, 1 Carlos Yabar (2023) makes an admirable case for prioritizing the extremely poor within vaccination schemes. His main point, with which we wholeheartedly agree, is that the extremely poor are a manylayered vulnerable group (they are stigmatized, and suffer from unequal access to quality food and health, shelter, justice, and so on). Yabar's point is that a pandemic, such as Covid-19,