by Rich Copley | Presbyterian News Service
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is joining hundreds of other groups calling for intellectual property rules to be lifted to enable wider distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. (Photo courtesy of the National Cancer Institute via Unsplash)
LEXINGTON, Kentucky â The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness (OPW) is joining more than 400 faith, human rights, civil society, and labor organizations in calling on the administration of President Joe Biden to join a global movement to make COVID-19 vaccines more widely available around the world.
The groups are calling on Biden to reverse the Trump administrationâs opposition to a waiver of World Trade Organization intellectual property rules so that vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests can be more broadly produced and distributed, particularly in developing nations.