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Credit: UNICEF/Nahom Tesfaye KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 11 2021 (IPS) - Thanks to President Biden, the US now supports a suspension of intellectual property (IP) rights to increase vaccine supplies. However, without vaccine developers sharing tacit technical knowledge for safe vaccine mass production, it will be difficult to rapidly scale up vaccine output. Waiver delayed is waiver denied The CEOs of Pfizer and Astra Zeneca had recently asked the US President to reject the waiver request. Ne...

Covid vaccine scarcity largely artificial - countries and companies must share knowledge The Biden administration’s decision to stop opposing a proposed Covid-19 waiver of certain intellectual property rights under World Trade Organization rules is a welcome move. But ending the pandemic also requires scaling up knowledge and technology transfer, as well as public production of vaccine supplies. While the rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines was a truly impressive achievement, it has been ...

BBC News Published image captionProtesters unfurled banners at the companys headquarters in Cambridge Protests are taking place at AstraZeneca sites to demand the pharmaceutical firm shares its Covid-19 vaccine technology. The Global Justice Now group has been at sites in Cambridge and Macclesfield, with another protest in Oxford. They are calling for the company to openly license its vaccine and commit to sharing the technology with the World Health Organisation (WHO). The firm said it had pr...

Protesters to descend on AstraZenecas Macclesfield site in call for firm to share its Covid vaccine technology The UK is reaping the benefits of the highly effective vaccines that are now available, but people in low and middle-income countries are still dying daily by the thousands from Covid-19 10:11, 11 MAY 2021 Updated Dont miss a thing by getting the days biggest stories sent direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Click here When you subscribe we wi...

Lessons Of The Pandemic For Our Collective Humanity The most telling lesson of the coronavirus pandemic is that “no one is safe until everyone is safe.” It is an indisputable proof of our biological connectedness which is even more consequential for life and livelihood than the digital connectivity that is the buzz word of the millennials. by Femi Falana May 11, 2021 The most telling lesson of the coronavirus pandemic is that “no one is safe until everyone is safe.” It is an indisputabl...

Call for UK to back patent waiver on COVID-19 vaccines Open letter tells prime minister Boris Johnson to "stand on the right side of history". Meanwhile EU is reluctant to follow the US and back vaccines waiver UK prime minister, Boris Johnson More than 400 academics, politicians, charities, and others have called on UK prime minister Boris Johnson to follow the US in backing a waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines. This follows on from US president Joe Biden unexpectedly...

Protesters demanding that AstraZeneca share its Covid-19 vaccine technology have held a loud demonstration outside the pharmaceutical firm’s Cambridge headquarters. A protester, who held held a sign which read “human life not profit,” chained himself to a door while others climbed on to the roof of the entryway and unfurled a banner which read “people’s vaccine not profit vaccine”. Supporters played drums during the protest organised by Global Justice Now, which is calling for th...

Protesters demanding that AstraZeneca share its Covid-19 vaccine technology have clashed with police outside the pharmaceutical giants headquarters. A group of mostly young activists blocked the entrance to the firms main building in a Cambridge business park. The protestors are accusing the pharmaceutical company of profiting during the pandemic and to demand the jab is openly licensed and shared with the World Health Organisation (WHO). One protester holding a sign reading human life not p...

AstraZeneca protest: Reports of arrests as police shout step back in scuffle with protesters One video from the scene appears to show protesters scuffling with police 14:52, 11 MAY 2021 Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in ac...

Disclosure statement In 2017-2020, Joel Lexchin received payments for being on a panel at the American Diabetes Association, for talks at the Toronto Reference Library, for writing a brief in an action for side effects of a drug for Michael F. Smith, Lawyer and a second brief on the role of promotion in generating prescriptions for Goodmans LLP and from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for presenting at a workshop on conflict-of-interest in clinical practice guidelines. He is currentl...