Thread by @peoplesvaccine

LIVE: Wednesday 14th: 10am BST

Members of the #PeoplesVaccine alliance and more to talk vaccine access inequality, Merkel's visit to the US and how we speed up global #COVID vaccinations.

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https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1414885262623223819

On current trends it will take 57 years to get many countries vaccinated.
It's completely gross.
@nickdearden75 of @GlobalJusticeUK
#PeoplesVaccine

Oxygen demand in Africa is now 50% greater than it was at the peak last year....
Some countries like Israel are starting to offer booster shots... whereas in many countries, even health workers have not received a shot.
It's ridiculous on so many levels
Maaza of @Afri_Alliance

There's a stark gap between men and women in vaccination in India - for every 1000 men only 867 women have received the vaccine.
The access is not just global, but gendered.
- @WeAreSama

& this gap increases when one looks at access to vaccines within the marginalised communities and the rural urban divide.

We need a #PeoplesVaccine for everyone, everywhere

Govs have failed at the WTO. India and & SA, and now 100+ countries are lobbying for a TRIPSwaiver
Governments are interfering with the way other countries can access vaccine.
It's a total failure of collaboration at the global level which we need right now. Aruna of @hrw

The pandemic has created NINE new billionaires... at a time that the world is struggling to get vaccines.
The consequences of that #vaccineapartheid are life and death - not just from COVID but from consequences like who can eat, who can work.
@jenny_ricks of @FightInequality

We literally do not have enough supplies.
Even COVAX is failing us. We have a supply crisis and a political leadership crisis.
@_HassanF of @HealthJusticeIn

We have hope. We have expectation for Merkel's US visit.
If Angela Merkel did the right thing, she could bring a lot of countries with her.
We hope Biden follows through on that commitment to not let patents stand in the way, and bring Merkel to that.
@Anna_Marriott of @oxfamgb

'Rich' countries have been so weak against pharmaceutical companies. Why did they not come together even just to negotiate a reduction of the price of vaccines? #EyesOnPharmaGreed
@Anna_Marriott

Many countries have been told "wait and we'll give you our leftovers", as well as some blatantly racist discussion of whether certain countries are 'able' to produce vaccines.
What we want is not charity it is justice and common sense.
Maaza - @Afri_Alliance
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Why are we surprised? We saw this in the HIV/AIDS crisis and now we're seeing it again.
It is morally grotesque.
They've socialised the risk and privatised the profits of these vaccines.
@_HassanF

The onus on us is to insist on a *justice solution* to this, not a charity solution.
It doesn't work, it's failing and it's causing mass death.
People in the global north need to understand and respond with anger and outrage to what is happening.
@jenny_ricks
#PeoplesVaccine

There's a delusion in the global north that this is over, but the virus is mutating.

It's not only outrageously unfair but it's self-destructive.

@astroehlein

Thank you to @astroehlein for hosting, and @ajkashy, @jenny_ricks, @_HassanF, @Anna_Marriott, @nickdearden75, and Maaza of @Afri_Alliance and Neelanjana of @WeAreSama for your expertise on the inequality and issues with COVID vaccines