Only 46% of the world is fully vaccinated.
In many countries, it's less than 10%.
BILLIONS of people have not even had one dose yet.
🔑 The key reason is the vaccine shortage caused by the EU, UK & others blocking wider vaccine production globally.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
In many countries, it's less than 10%.
BILLIONS of people have not even had one dose yet.
🔑 The key reason is the vaccine shortage caused by the EU, UK & others blocking wider vaccine production globally.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
As the @nytimes says: "Vaccine doses remain relatively scarce globally, with demand still forecast to outstrip supply through the end of 2021. But concerns around waning immunity have prompted many countries… to start administering additional doses…"
So, we already have a global vaccine shortage caused by insufficient production levels, and demand is only going up.
Leaving pharma monopolies to set those production levels has clearly NOT been working. It's failed to meet current need, and it obviously won't meet future need.
Leaving pharma monopolies to set those production levels has clearly NOT been working. It's failed to meet current need, and it obviously won't meet future need.
In the global vaccine shortage, there's a scramble for doses, and some get left behind.
Every day there are 6 times more
💉💉💉💉💉💉 BOOSTERS being administered globally
than
💉 FIRST DOSES in low-income countries.
Every day there are 6 times more
💉💉💉💉💉💉 BOOSTERS being administered globally
than
💉 FIRST DOSES in low-income countries.
The scramble is unfair & absurd: some leaders are still trying to fight the pandemic in their country alone.
They think as long as WE have enough doses, it doesn't matter if THEY don't.
Almost 2 years into a global pandemic, they still don't know what the word GLOBAL means.
They think as long as WE have enough doses, it doesn't matter if THEY don't.
Almost 2 years into a global pandemic, they still don't know what the word GLOBAL means.
Not only unfair & absurd, but also self-defeating.
Giving the virus more time like this means:
☠️ more death;
☠️ more suffering;
☠️ more chances for new variants to arise.
An merry-go-round pandemic is bad for ALL OF US everywhere.
Giving the virus more time like this means:
☠️ more death;
☠️ more suffering;
☠️ more chances for new variants to arise.
An merry-go-round pandemic is bad for ALL OF US everywhere.
Leaders in the EU, UK & Switzerland continue to BLOCK the very SOLUTION that will start to get us all out of this mess: wider vaccine production globally through a vaccine patent waiver (#TRIPSwaiver).
Millions are dead already...
Millions more will follow...
The economic costs are incalculable...
People's lives are made a misery...
For going on 2 years...
And yet these leaders think the normal trade rules should still apply?
They think this is "business as usual"?
Millions more will follow...
The economic costs are incalculable...
People's lives are made a misery...
For going on 2 years...
And yet these leaders think the normal trade rules should still apply?
They think this is "business as usual"?
A temporary waiver on vaccines & other key medical products to deal with an exceptional situation.
That's really al the #TRIPSwaiver is.
It's a first step to actually starting to address - and one day END - the global pandemic.
The EU, UK & Switzerland should change course.
That's really al the #TRIPSwaiver is.
It's a first step to actually starting to address - and one day END - the global pandemic.
The EU, UK & Switzerland should change course.
#Omicron is the latest reminder that the global pandemic is, well, GLOBAL.
It should be obvious to everyone by now that no one is protected from COVID-19 until everyone is protected.
#TRIPSwaiver
#PeoplesVaccine
(cartoon by @turnercartoons)
hrw.org/news/2021/12/0…
It should be obvious to everyone by now that no one is protected from COVID-19 until everyone is protected.
#TRIPSwaiver
#PeoplesVaccine
(cartoon by @turnercartoons)
hrw.org/news/2021/12/0…
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