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April 29, 2021 A year and a month after that ill-fated March day when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 to be a pandemic, humanity now has available thirteen vaccines approved for emergency use. The pandemic, which has infected 133 million people and left 2.9 million dead, as well as inflicting unprecedented economic and social damage, sparked a race to develop treatments and/or vaccines to combat it. Never before had so many vaccines of such high efficacy been developed in so short a time to prevent a virus-caused disease. Along with that success, however, 2020 brought a...

People’s Vaccine Alliance urges Japan, Singapore, SKorea to back vaccine waiver proposal Members of aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demonstrate outside the World Trade Organization to waive intellectual property rights on coronavirus disease (Covid-19) drugs ahead of meeting on WTO's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) agreement in Geneva, Switzerland March 4, 2021. REUTERS Star Digital Report Star Digital Report The People's Vaccine Alliance (PVA) in Asia will call on Japan, Singapore and South Korea to support the 'tem...

No, but not for lack of trying. Consider EU vaccination efforts to date. Europe has invested billions to support vaccine development. The EU largely permitted exports of locally-manufactured vaccines, while the U.S. and UK blocked them. The European Commission was a founding member of the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) Facility, to which Team Europe is a top contributor. Closer to home, the EU gave €70 million ($85 million) to the six Western Balkan EU aspirants so that they could purchase vaccines. But EU assistance has been slow to materialize. On March 28, three months after the ...

Today, we are joining over 700 health professionals and academics in sending an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison urging him to take a leadership role in expanding the global production of COVID-19 vaccines and other medical tools to fight the pandemic. The letter, signed by 207 doctors, 177 academics and 111 public health professionals, asks the government to help remove legal and technical barriers to increasing the production of COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostic tests, treatments and other equipment. We argue there is more Australia — and other wealthy nations — can and should ...

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