If we ever want a normal Christmas again, we need to vaccinate the world. We can only do that by overriding Big Pharma’s stranglehold on vaccine recipes. Today we reveal some startling new stats 1/ #PeoplesVaccine #TRIPSWaiver 
The EU, UK & US have received more vaccine doses in the last 6 weeks than African countries have received all year. Just 8.6% of people in Africa have been fully vaccinated. This FT graph says it all in terms of just how unequal things are 2/
If we rolled out vaccines to everyone at the same rate the UK is giving boosters, we could vaccinate the world by February. Whereas, if things keep going as they are, everyone in Africa won’t have received their *first dose* until April 2023. 3/ independent.co.uk/world/uk-eu-us…
Don’t believe the nonsense from Big Pharma that vaccine hesitancy is the main problem. Recent research found 78% of people in Africa are willing to get vaccinated – a higher proportion than in many rich countries. 4/ healthpolicy-watch.news/africa-covid-1…
Don’t believe the nonsense from Big Pharma that there is no more capacity to make vaccines. @HRW & @MSF_access identified 100 manufacturers that could produce mRNA vaccines if we shared the recipes 5/ hrw.org/news/2021/12/1…
Don’t believe the nonsense about our ‘generous’ donations. The UK has delivered a mere 15% of the tiny amount of vaccines it promised. A mere 20million doses, many of them close to expiry. 6/ telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
It’s very simple. We need to boost manufacturing, override big Pharma monopolies and share the recipe, allowing countries across the world to control their own medicine supply. We’ve wasted so much time. #TRIPSWaiver Now. 7/ act.globaljustice.org.uk/suspend-covid-…
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