vaccine production in developing countries, including on the African continent, where more than 80% of the population has yet to receive a single coronavirus vaccine dose.
last week."We need a massive new infusion of vaccine distribution in the poorest parts of the world."that the world needs more than 20 billion additional vaccine doses to end the Omicron wave and prevent new variants from emerging. The patent waiver as crafted by South Africa and India would also apply to Covid-19 therapeutics such as the pill produced by Pfizer, which is currently building an exclusionary""We're doubling down on a two-tier world when it comes to Covid-19—rich, highly vaccinated nations with easy access to both preventive measures and treatments, and poorer nations trying to get by without either," Othoman Mellouk, a medicine access advocate with the International Treatment Preparedness...
Publicly share vaccine-making recipes that were developed with U.S. taxpayer support, and incentivize or compel pharmaceutical companies and other intellectual property holders to share vaccine, diagnostic, and medicine-making patent rights, data rights, and technical know-how with qualified producers around the world; and
TradeJusticeEd the biden administration has turned a pandemic into a business ignoring the science and sold the working class and poor to the 1% for profit