Sanders and Warren Call on Biden to Reverse Trump Era Vaccine Apartheid
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have joined with other leading Democrats and public health organizations to deliver a petition demanding the U.S. drop its opposition to a temporary waiver on international patent rights for COVID vaccines and treatments.
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President Biden is coming under mounting pressure at home and abroad to reverse a Trump-era policy and publicly support a temporary waiver on international patent rights for COVID vaccines and treatments that would allow countries around the world to manufacture lifesaving doses domestically.
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After months of not knowing how the Covid-19 pandemic would end, we now have some answers. Vaccines that came even faster and work even better than anticipated are the light at the end of this very dark, long tunnel – the beginning of the end is in sight.
But the virus is unlikely to go away for good. The global race to vaccinate as many people as possible will usher in a new phase of our fight against Covid-19, yet there is little chance it will deliver a knockout blow. In the long run, what started as a global pandemic may become yet another example of humankind learning to live alongside a deadly virus.
Rich countries are scooping up COVID-19 vaccines. What about the rest of the world? [Los Angeles Times]
The race to vaccinate the world against a once-in-a-century pandemic has begun in an all-too-familiar way: Every country for itself.
Rich nations have gobbled up nearly all the global supply of the two leading COVID-19 vaccines through the end of 2021, leaving many middle-income countries to turn to unproven drugs developed by China and Russia while poorer states face long waits for their first doses.
“Richer countries will be able to vaccinate … their whole populations before vulnerable groups in many developing countries get covered,” said Suerie Moon, co-director of the Global Health Center at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Rich countries are scooping up COVID-19 vaccines
A health worker collects a swab sample from a shopper at a makeshift COVID-19 testing booth at a market area in New Delhi last week as India surged past 10 million confirmed coronavirus cases. TNS JEWEL SAMAD
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A health worker collects a swab sample from a shopper for the Covid-19 coronavirus testing at a makeshift testing booth at a market area in New Delhi on December 19, 2020, as India surged past 10 million coronavirus cases. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images/TNS) JEWEL SAMAD