Tag: Covid-19 vaccine

"A people-funded vaccine should be cheap and freely available."

The Supreme Court ruled that under the law that created OSHA it "empowers the Secretary to set workplace safety standards, not broad public health measures."

Here are four (million) of my own takeaways from 2021, a classic hell-on-Earth year that, if worse weren’t potentially on the horizon, could perhaps be quickly forgotten.

"Continued opposition to the TRIPS waiver is resulting in the violation of human rights of peoples across the world."

Along with "being scientifically dishonest," and "trying to cheat NIH scientists," the company "is leaving people to die."

She calls on the United States to use tools like the Defense Production Act to mobilize mass production of vaccines to export for free around the world.

“Our expectation should be, by July, this will be the dominant variant.”

“Ending this pandemic requires collaboration, solidarity, and empathy. It requires a very different mindset—a mindset that puts people over profits at every turn.”

“Between them, G7 nations have secured enough vaccines for every one of their citizens to be vaccinated three times over, while many poor countries are yet to receive a single dose."

Out of context numbers and percentages only create public misunderstanding of the scientific results.