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Credit: UNICEF/Nahom Tesfaye KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 11 2021 (IPS) - Thanks to President Biden, the US now supports a suspension of intellectual property (IP) rights to increase vaccine supplies. However, without vaccine developers sharing tacit technical knowledge for safe vaccine mass production, it will be difficult to rapidly scale up vaccine output. Waiver delayed is waiver denied The CEOs of Pfizer and Astra Zeneca had recently asked the US President to reject the waiver request. Nevertheless, on 5 May, US Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai announced US support for a vaccin...

Covid vaccine scarcity largely artificial - countries and companies must share knowledge The Biden administration’s decision to stop opposing a proposed Covid-19 waiver of certain intellectual property rights under World Trade Organization rules is a welcome move. But ending the pandemic also requires scaling up knowledge and technology transfer, as well as public production of vaccine supplies. While the rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines was a truly impressive achievement, it has been tarnished by constraints on global vaccine supply and the related inequities in distribution. Photo:...

BBC News Published image captionProtesters unfurled banners at the company's headquarters in Cambridge Protests are taking place at AstraZeneca sites to demand the pharmaceutical firm shares its Covid-19 vaccine technology. The Global Justice Now group has been at sites in Cambridge and Macclesfield, with another protest in Oxford. They are calling for the company to openly license its vaccine and commit to sharing the technology with the World Health Organisation (WHO). The firm said it had produced the vaccine at cost and shared "know-how". Global Justice Now planned the action to coincide...

Protesters to descend on AstraZeneca's Macclesfield site in call for firm to share its Covid vaccine technology 'The UK is reaping the benefits of the highly effective vaccines that are now available, but people in low and middle-income countries are still dying daily by the thousands from Covid-19' 10:11, 11 MAY 2021 Updated Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Click here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used...

Lessons Of The Pandemic For Our Collective Humanity The most telling lesson of the coronavirus pandemic is that “no one is safe until everyone is safe.” It is an indisputable proof of our biological connectedness which is even more consequential for life and livelihood than the digital connectivity that is the buzz word of the millennials. by Femi Falana May 11, 2021 The most telling lesson of the coronavirus pandemic is that “no one is safe until everyone is safe.” It is an indisputable proof of our biological connectedness which is even more consequential for life and livelihood tha...