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IP rights have nothing to do with slow global rollout of vaccines Despite this, some 90 developing nations, led by India and SA, have called for a waiver to suspend all intellectual property rights associated with Covid-19 innovations 17 March 2021 - 05:00 Stephen Ezell Picture: 123RF/SASIRIN PAMAI In the face of a Covid-19 pandemic that has caused 2.6-million fatalities worldwide, life sciences companies have raced to bring forward a wide range of life-saving innovations, including novel diagnostic tests such as that of LumiraDx, which can detect the virus within minut...

Sanders saying this is not a medicare for all plan. and then she is also taking it from the right. joe biden saying that what this plan essentially does is tear down the a.c.a. that's what his team is saying. what this plan does is it puts her right in between joe biden and bernie sanders. that is where she wants to be. so let's take a look at the plan. what is the harris plan? it essentially scales up medicare as we know it. medicare in 2019. it calls for traditional medicare. there is that public option that will be government run. but there is also that option for private insurance. so if y...

Been sitting down and they want to get in there. they can put people there that can run that air field and 10 others. get this. in hurricane irma, we had an aircraft carrier that came over the horizon that could have run all of the air in and out of puerto rico. the second day they could have run the air field 24-7. the military has the capacity to do this. and the department of defense and three back to back and florida was a text book operation. the general put his guard in and the federal troops came in by sea and air. it was a difficult operation. we needed even more than that. scale up, w...

Appeals for the roads closed by the fighting around the country to be opened so emergency food can flow. >> we have about three months of food stored inside the country today, but we don't have enough food to support the scale up that is required to ensure that we can avoid a famine. >> reporter: these scenes have caused intense criticism of the saudi-backed campaign and civilian death from saudi air strikes caused the obama administration to ban weapon sales to riyadh, but saudis determined to reduce iran's influence are persisting saying they want to reduce civilian casualties. and in a vacu...

Without collective efforts people will simply starve to death. >> reporter: more than 7 million people in yemen are facing what the u.n. calls severe food insecurity. not yet a famine but getting there. >> we don't have enough food to support the scale up that is required to ensure that we can avoid a famine. >> reporter: more than 2 million people face starvation in nigeria while more than 5 million are facing starvation. armed conflicts in these countries are compounding the problem. the wfp is asking for road access to deliver aid to some of the hardest hit areas and the affected areas in n...