Tag: Covid vaccine

“Every one of those deaths is a mark of shame for the governments of countries like the U.K. and Germany who have protected patents over human lives.”

While the call by activists to waive TRIPS is an important first step to scale up COVID vaccines, it actually needs to be abolished.

True to form, the Western pharmaceutical companies responsible for producing vaccines are already telling shareholders that they will raise prices on them in the near future.

"The problem is not getting vaccines out of COVAX; the problem is getting them in."

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

Or vaccine thinking applied to all of American life...

“Public health officials worry that the Trump administration is looking to roll out a vaccine prematurely, or at least to hype one, before the election as a way to score political points.“