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Colombia Vaccination Program to Exclude Undocumented Venezuelans

HeadlineDec 29, 2020

In Colombia, public health officials are condemning a plan by President Iván Duque to exclude undocumented Venezuelans from a mass vaccination program set to begin in February. Bogotá professor and public intellectual Alejandro Gaviria tweeted, “Not vaccinating Venezuelans is a bad idea from an epidemiological perspective. But it is above all an unethical proposal.”

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