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From moonshots to earthshots To overcome the big crises of our time, we need a mission-oriented entrepreneurial state. The Apollo programme showed how this can work NASA Read this article in German. Covid-19 has exposed the myriad weaknesses of modern capitalism. And in many countries, past cuts to social services and public health have amplified the damage wrought by the pandemic, while other self-inflicted wounds to the state have led to inadequate policy coordination ...

Failure to provide global access to Covid vaccines risks fresh outbreaks through travel or the emergence of new variants

The pandemic has created a huge opportunity to restore mission-driven governance in the public interest.

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate As rich countries race to roll out their vaccination programs, leaders in the Global South and global health advocates are increasingly decrying vaccine hoarding that has pushed poorer countries to the back of the line during the pandemic. Some rich countries have secured enough COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate their populations several times over, while poorer countries struggle to secure enough doses, almost certainly prolonging th...

Share the TechnologyExperts say we need to end major pharmaceutical monopoly on the supply and price of COVID vaccines News Highlights: Share the TechnologyExperts say we need to end major pharmaceutical monopoly on the supply and price of COVID vaccines This is an urgent transcript. The copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is democracy now! I am Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is calling on rich countries to stop hoarding excess doses...

Zim joins India, SA in trade waiver efforts Elita Chikwati Senior Reporter Zimbabwe has joined South Africa, India and other countries in sponsoring the proposed waiver from certain provisions of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement for the Prevention, Containment and Treatment of Covid-19. The waiver is aimed at fast-tracking local production to ensure equitable distribution and easy accessibility of vaccine and other medicines as efforts to curb the Covi...

As things stand, even the most optimistic scenarios today cannot assure access to vaccines and therapeutics for the majority of the population, in rich and poor countries, by the end of 2021.

Scientists clash over ethics of global vaccine roll-out International mechanisms for sharing COVID-19 vaccines have come under fire from scientists around the world for reinforcing rather than combating inequity in global health provision, and for encouraging parochial nationalist responses to the pandemic. The ethical furore has led to finger-pointing among public health experts eager to attribute blame for shortages in the supply of vaccines at national level. Big pharma, with the support of ...

A man in Soweto, South Africa receives an injection as he participates in clinical trial for a Covid-19 vaccine in June 2020. © 2020 Siphiwe Sibeko/Pool/ AFP via Getty Images Julia Mwangaza* is a 41-year-old health practitioner at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city. When I spoke to her recently, she expressed fear that, given the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the region, the health workforce would soon be overwhelmed and unable to care...

Fair global distribution of vaccines is vital Normal text size Advertisement In March, with Italy days into its first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, a hospital in Lombardy was running out of valves for respirators when a start-up called Isinnova came to the rescue by 3D-printing them. But this feel-good story of human ingenuity has a darker side. Isinnova had approached the valves manufacturer for access to its blueprints, only to be told those were company property subject to a patent. It meant...