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Actress Karine Vanasse and singers Mélissa Bédard and Beyries are raising awareness on importance of getting COVID vaccines to low-income countries.
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Three Quebec entertainers have lent their voices to Pandemica, a new series of 30-second animated clips created to raise awareness of the importance of getting vaccines to low-income countries quicker. The Quebecers involved in the project are actress Karine Vanasse and singers Mélissa Bédard and Beyries.
The series was created by ONE Campaign, a non-partisan organization co-founded by U2 lead singer Bono that is dedicated to ending extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030. The clips will premiere at 4:45 a.m. on Thursday on ONE Campaign’s website ONE.org and on its YouTube channel.
There are seven clips and three have been adapted in French, with the Quebec performers’ voices alongside the voices of a number of francophone artists from Europe and Africa. The English versions include the voices of Bono and actors Penélope Cruz, Danai Gurira, Michael Sheen, Patrick Adams, Connie Britton, David Oyelowo, Kumail Nanjiani, Wanda Sykes, and Zach Quinto.
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They are illustrated by artist Andrew Rae and produced by the U.S. animation company Titmouse.
“They illustrate a world that is called Pandemica where access to vaccine is very unequal,” said Elise Legault, policy and advocacy manager in Canada for ONE Campaign. “So some of the rich people get the vaccines and some of the poor people don’t get access to the vaccines. It’s meant to illustrate an actual disparity that exists in the world. So it’s not a real place, but it’s the reality for billions of people right now because less than one per cent of doses that have been administered globally have gone to people in low-income countries. At the same time, a handful of very wealthy countries have bought enough doses to vaccinate their entire population and still have one billion doses left over. There have been over-purchases by rich countries, including Canada, and we have created a scarcity of vaccines, meaning a lot of poor countries don’t have access right now.”
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