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When Africans asked for COVID shots, they didn't get them. Now they don't want them

Sulayman Jalloh, a heath worker vaccinates a driver from the Bundung garage during a mobile vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in Banjul, Gambia. [Reuters]

It's noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside, an area reserved for COVID-19 shots is empty. A health worker leans back in his chair and scrolls on a tablet.

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