CNN correspondent Larry Madowo's grandmother is battling for her life in the ICU after she contracted COVID-19.

"Every time I see a call from home, my heart sinks. I always fear that they're ringing to say that my grandmother has died. She has been on a ventilator for four weeks and my anxiety is near breaking point. The dreaded call could come at any time," Madowo expressed in an article on the CNN website.

Madowo has highlighted the inequality of vaccine availability between the first world countries and the rest of the world. And how this has affected his family.

In his article he pointed out, "Even at 96, my Kenyan grandmother was among hundreds of millions in the developing world who was not vaccinated until recently because rich nations have hoarded most of the available shots. Though I'm more than 60 years younger than her, I was fully inoculated by April because I was living in the United States, where anybody over 12 can get a vaccine if they want one."

He explained how easy it is to get vaccinated, "All I needed to get protection was walk to a nearby drugstore in Washington, DC. But many people like my grandmother have died or will die, because of the accident of where they live. Her heart is now failing, and mine is breaking."

Madowo detailed how his uncle, lost the fight against the virus and was buried within 48 hours.

"I had just finished filming at a crammed ICU treating critical Covid-19 patients in Uganda's capital of Kampala last month when I learned that my uncle Justus had himself died of the virus across the border in Kenya."

He continued, "I was heartbroken and angry. He was not vaccinated because Kenya didn't -- and still does not -- have enough shots even for a senior like him."

Justus was buried within 48 hours as the Kenyan government requires. 

"He was the third family member who had died in the pandemic that I didn't get a chance to mourn properly or see laid to rest," he said.

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