jgomez@bio.org
Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), sent a letter to President Joe Biden yesterday suggesting the establishment of a COVID Global Strategy for Harnessing Access Reaching Everyone (SHARE) Program, to be implemented immediately.
The letter, which is chalked full of policy solutions, is a response to the “worsening COVID crises in India, Brazil and elsewhere.”
The Global SHARE Program would consist of three parts:
1) Ensuring sufficient global supply of vaccines;
2) Ensuring safe and expeditious global access to vaccines and therapeutics; and
3) Ongoing Efforts to strengthen and support healthcare systems in low-and middle-income countries in addressing COVID.