Will US lift vaccine patents?
As India’s explosive outbreak spills beyond its borders, the West and its drug companies are under growing pressure to waive intellectual property rights to Covid-19 vaccines and treatments so more countries can start making them.
On Sunday, the US acknowledged those calls, with White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain telling CBS News that US Trade Representative Katherine Tai would hold talks with the World Trade Organization “on how we can get this vaccine more widely distributed, more widely licensed, more widely shared.”
This comes as India’s devastating virus surge, which is edging towards 20 million confirmed cases (though the real number is suspected to be far higher), turns into a regional problem. Neighboring Nepal reported a hospital bed shortage due to rising cases, oxygen supplies are running low in Pakistan, and Bangladesh diverted industrial oxygen supplies to hospitals last week, fearing shortages for Covid-19 patients.
Will US lift vaccine patents?
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As India s explosive outbreak spills beyond its borders, the West and its drug companies are under growing pressure to waive intellectual property rights to Covid-19 vaccines and treatments so more countries can start making them.
On Sunday, the US acknowledged those calls, with White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain telling CBS News that US Trade Representative Katherine Tai would hold talks with the World Trade Organization on how we can get this vaccine more widely distributed, more widely licensed, more widely shared.
Nice, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, has recommended more research to produce guidance on how children and young people are affected and how they can be treated. However, there is no case definition of long Covid in children and young people in the way there is in adults.
In the absence of that definition and guidance, parents say they are being dismissed or regarded with suspicion by medical professionals over their childâs unexplained symptoms.
One of the problems, says the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, is that services for rehabilitating children seriously affected by, for example, chronic fatigue symptoms are âcompletely inadequateâ in many parts of the country.
‘It’s terrifying’: parents’ struggle to get help for children with long Covid Amelia Hill
On Christmas Day, Gail Jackson’s 16-year-old daughter said she was in so much pain she thought she would die. Liliana had been briefly admitted to hospital with Covid in September. Her symptoms never went away and, as time went on, new ones had emerged.
“For months she had a relentless, agonising headache, nausea, tinnitus, fatigue and insomnia, but the worst thing was the agonising nerve pain,” said Jackson. “I couldn’t even touch her without her screaming in pain.”
On Christmas morning, Jackson drove to hospital with her daughter vomiting from pain in the passenger seat. When they got to the hospital, however, the A&E doctor said there was no such thing as long Covid in children. “He said she just needed to go home and get on with her life,” Jackson said. “It was jaw-dropping.”
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