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CambridgeLive reports that there are around 80 protestors at the headquarters. Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now, said: “Scientists at Oxford University, a publicly-funded institution, developed this lifesaving vaccine through a research and development process that was 97 per cent publicly funded. “The resulting vaccine should have been openly accessible to everyone, but AstraZeneca swooped in and privatised it. “The UK is reaping the benefits of the highly effective ...

Jayati Ghosh The decision by Joe Biden’s administration to stop opposing a proposed Covid-19 waiver of certain intellectual-property rights under World Trade Organization rules is a welcome move. The United States trade representative, Katherine Tai, acknowledges that ‘the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures’. While affirming that it ‘believes strongly in intellectual property protections’, the Biden administration ‘in service of endi...

UK called to support proposal to waive patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines The US and World Trade Organization have already expressed support for the initiative A group of over 400 experts have called the UK to back a proposal first put forward by India and South Africa for a temporary waiver on COVID-19 vaccine patents. Intellectual property protections ensure that the developers of vaccines are financially rewarded; removing them would help with boosting supply to poorer countries. The op...

Protesters are to gather outside AstraZeneca’s Cambridge headquarters to demand the pharmaceutical firm shares its Covid-19 vaccine technology. The demonstration, organised by Global Justice Now, is calling for the British-Swedish company to openly licence its jab and commit to sharing the technology with the World Health Organisation (WHO). Protests are also planned at the firm’s Macclesfield site and at the University of Oxford, which worked with AstraZeneca to develop the vaccine. Global...

Will corporate greed prolong the pandemic? May 10,2021 - Last updated at May 10,2021 By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Lori Wallach NEW YORK — The only way to end the COVID-19 pandemic is to immunise enough people worldwide. The slogan “no one is safe until we are all safe” captures the epidemiological reality we face. Outbreaks anywhere could spawn a SARS-CoV-2 variant that is resistant to vaccines, forcing us all back into some form of lockdown. Given the emergence of worrisome new mutations in...

The next steps toward a ‘People’s Vaccine’ Jayati Ghosh May 10, 2021 23:35 Joe Biden tours a Pfizer manufacturing plant producing the COVID-19 vaccine in Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S., Feb. 19, 2021. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/z3b4r The Biden administration’s decision last week to stop opposing a proposed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) waiver of certain intellectual property rights under World Trade Organization rules is a welcome move. The Office of the US Trade Representative a...

Health Experts Say Expanding Vaccine Access Requires More Than Patent Waivers D.C. Health Nurse Manager Ashley Hennigan fills a syringe with a dose of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine during a walk-up clinic at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts outdoor Reach area on May 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Biolyse Pharma Corp., which makes injectable cancer drugs, was gearing up to start making generic biologic drugs, made from living organisms. ...

The only way to end the COVID-19 pandemic is to immunize enough people worldwide. The slogan “no one is safe until we are all safe” captures the epidemiological reality we face. Outbreaks anywhere could spawn a SARS-CoV-2 variant that is resistant to vaccines, forcing us all back into some form of lockdown. Given the emergence of worrisome new mutations in India, Brazil, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere, this is no mere theoretical threat. Worse, vaccine production is current...

Date Time US support for waiving COVID vaccine intellectual property is a huge step Yesterday, the US Biden administration declared its support for waiving intellectual property rights, including patents, for COVID-19 vaccines. Author Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University This decision represents a huge breakthrough in discussions at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that have been deadlocked for more than six months. Other nations that have so far resisted pressure t...

Director-Generals opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 – 7 May 2021 Format Wednesday’s announcement by the United States of America that it will support a temporary waiver of intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines is a significant statement of solidarity and support for vaccine equity. We are in an unprecedented crisis that requires unprecedented action. Cases are at a record high, almost 100 thousand people are dying globally each week, and we have a chronic v...