A "global reset" is needed to fight future pandemics, Germany's Health Minister Jens Spahn told a World Health Organization (WHO) briefing on Wednesday as the UN agency announced the creation of a new research hub in Berlin. Spahn highlighted the.
COVID: How many parents will actually vaccinate their kids?
The early data makes a clear case for vaccinating adolescents. But it s also true that humans have an extremely difficult time making a medical choice on another person s behalf and sometimes default to doing nothing.
Parents are likely facing a big choice soon: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate My child is not a lab rat.
The words are from a 25-year-old woman, Susan, and they re in reference to her three-year-old twin girls.
While she speaks to DW, her eyes flicker between them as they begin to meander away first together, then in different directions in a large, open park in Bonn, Germany.
WRAPUP 3-EU supports COVID vaccine patent waiver talks, but critics say won t solve scarcity Reuters 7 hrs ago
(Adds U.S. secretary of state, analyst comment, details on shortcomings of plan; updates shares) U.S. says waiver would increase vaccine manufacturing Critics say patent restrictions not responsible for scarcity Drugmaker stocks mostly recover after sharp drop
By Philip Blenkinsop and Carl O Donnell
BRUSSELS/NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuters) - The European Union on Thursday backed a U.S. proposal to discuss waiving patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines, but drugmakers and some other governments opposed the idea, saying it would not solve global inoculation shortages.
EU ready to discuss COVID vaccine patent waiver as drugmakers push back
By Philip Blenkinsop and Francesco Guarascio
Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is willing to discuss a proposal to waive intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday, as drugmakers fought their ground as their share prices tumbled.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday voiced support for a waiver in a sharp reversal of the U.S. position, and his top trade negotiator, Katherine Tai, swiftly backed negotiations at the World Trade Organization.
The World Health Organization said in April that of 700 million vaccines administered around the world, only 0.2% had been in low-income countries. A recent surge of infections in India, the world s second most populous country, has underlined the point.