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29 Mar, 4 tweets, 4 min read
Today would be a good day for the EU to stop blocking wider production of Covid vaccines globally: bit.ly/3rjWkdb

And the US, UK & Australia: bit.ly/2PrgUuH

And Brazil: bit.ly/3l2BQnx

And Canada, why aren't you helping? bit.ly/39plJff Image
12 days ago, EU Commission President @vonderleyen said she was “not ruling out” going so far as to waive intellectual property rights on vaccines: politico.eu/newsletter/bru…

3 days ago, the Biden administration signalled the same: cnbc.com/amp/2021/03/26…

❓ Is the ice cracking? ImageImage
300 MEPs & MPs in the EU understand the problem of global vaccine scarcity...

So do over 100 countries...

So do NGOs, trade unions...

The EU, US, UK & others should stop blocking wider production of vaccines now.

#TRIPSwaiver
#PeoplesVaccine

Read more about how everyone will benefit if WTO members sign the #TRIPSwaiver:
bit.ly/31qXDwb Image

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Andrew Stroehlein Profile picture
30 Mar
📢 Experts say we have a year or less before first-generation Covid-19 vaccines are ineffective & modified formulations are needed.

Survey concludes new variants could arise in countries with low vaccine coverage…

…which is still almost everywhere.
theguardian.com/world/2021/mar… Image
We're creating a world in which a few countries will always be fighting over scarce supplies of new vaccines to combat new variants…

…while most countries will have no access or delayed access to vaccines, leaving billions of bodies for new variants to form in.

Cui bono?
If the production of approved vaccines is currently too slow to keep up with the rate of new resistant strains emerging, then the world absolutely must boost production capacity.

Yet, some countries are still blocking wider production of vaccines...
hrw.org/news/2021/03/0… Image
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28 Mar
📢 Very promising news...

Let's hope the White House does this. And fast.

The sooner the US acts, the more lives will be saved.
Note, the US is not the only country currently blocking expanded vaccine production globally... Image
11 days ago, the EU Commission suggested it might also be moving in the right direction...
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14 Mar
11 March 2025: On the 5th anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, commemorations are happening around the globe to mourn the loss of over 51 million people…
On the 1st anniversary back in 2021, when “only” 2.6 million deaths had been recorded, many people thought they could see the light at the end of the tunnel…
Vaccines had been developed by pharmaceutical companies in record time – with the help of billions in public money – and some people had already been fully vaccinated within one year. It seemed to many like a remarkable achievement.
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13 Mar
I know some folks in the human rights community get a bit annoyed with me when I bring in practicality-based arguments to convince people of the need for a human rights approach to a problem. But in my experience, legal and moral arguments don't convince all audiences.
Take the issue of torture, for example. You can explain that it's illegal in international & national law, and you can say that it's just wrong - and I agree, of course - but those arguments don't convince some people.
So, you also remind them that torture doesn't work: people will say anything to stop being tortured, whether it's true or not, so it doesn't deliver reliable information. And torture is also counter-productive: it acts as a recruiting poster for your country's enemies.
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13 Mar
He: "As long as we get vaccinated here, it's good. If it takes a few extra years to vaccinate the developing world, too bad.”

Me: “The longer the virus spreads, the greater chance for a mutation to emerge that’s more deadly & to which the vaccine you had offers no protection.”
When we say, "we're all in this together", it's not just some hippie dippy wishful thinking.

You don't escape the threat of this global pandemic until we all do.
I'm not asking you to show empathy for others.

I'm asking you to be selfish & practical for yourself and your family.

The world needs to ramp up the production of approved vaccines massively.

The EU, UK, US & others have to stop blocking it at the World Trade Organization.
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12 Mar
The US, the EU, the UK, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Japan, Brazil...

These countries are all deliberately prolonging the pandemic.
euronews.com/2021/03/11/ric…
A longer pandemic hurts everyone, even those lucky enough to get one of the rare vaccines, because the longer the pandemic goes on, the more people die and the longer we all suffer from the economic damage of the pandemic.
In the five months that these governments have stonewalled at the WTO, another 1.5 million people have died of COVID-19.

How many more will die because of this unconscionable policy to restrict manufacturing & thus prolong the pandemic?
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