BREAKING: India has just set a new global record for daily COVID-19 infections in a single country: 312,731 in 24 hours.
Virus deaths and cases are spiking worldwide from new, more transmittable variants.
President Biden must #FreeTheVaccine so we can end the pandemic for all.
Virus deaths and cases are spiking worldwide from new, more transmittable variants.
President Biden must #FreeTheVaccine so we can end the pandemic for all.
The global vaccination effort is making progress, but there is still a massive shortage of vaccines. US and EU drug companies can only manufacture so much at a time.
More than 100 nations have asked the @WTO to let them manufacture it themselves.
But the US is blocking them.
More than 100 nations have asked the @WTO to let them manufacture it themselves.
But the US is blocking them.
President Biden can save millions of lives around the world without taking a single dose of vaccine away from Americans.
He just needs to support a waiver of global patent protection laws, so poorer countries can manufacture the vaccine themselves.
He just needs to support a waiver of global patent protection laws, so poorer countries can manufacture the vaccine themselves.
In India, approx 250K people are being infected with COVID daily, but they don't have enough vaccines for everyone.
They can manufacture the vaccines developed by @moderna_tx, @pfizer and others. They simply need permission to waive the vaccine patents.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-sl…
They can manufacture the vaccines developed by @moderna_tx, @pfizer and others. They simply need permission to waive the vaccine patents.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-sl…
As @JoiaMukherjee of @PIH explains in our video, the WTO has waived drug patent protections before.
In the AIDS epidemic, poorer countries won the right to manufacture their own medicines. It worked: people got the treatment they needed.
We can do the same thing with COVID.
In the AIDS epidemic, poorer countries won the right to manufacture their own medicines. It worked: people got the treatment they needed.
We can do the same thing with COVID.
Releasing the COVID vaccines from patent protections is the right thing to do for Americans and others around the world.
It will save millions of lives. And it will ensure a vaccine resistant strain of the virus doesn't emerge.
It's time for @POTUS to act.
It will save millions of lives. And it will ensure a vaccine resistant strain of the virus doesn't emerge.
It's time for @POTUS to act.
.@justiceisglobal is hosting a national week of action from April 22nd - 29th to call for President Biden to #FreeTheVaccine.
Join an action here.
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Join an action here.
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