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Sanders and Warren Call on Biden to Reverse Trump-Era Vaccine Apartheid
Biden is under intense pressure to choose people over pharmaceutical profits as COVID outbreaks continue globally.
Prioritizing Incarcerated People for Vaccine Quickly Reduced COVID in IL Prisons
The state has vaccinated 69 percent of the people in prison. However, most guards are not required to get vaccinated.
Michigan Outbreak Bolsters Fear That Conservative Outposts Will Prolong Pandemic
Michigan’s outbreak could be an anomaly or a preview of what's to come as the nation emerges from the pandemic.
Big Pharma’s Shareholder Payouts Are Enough to Fund Vaccines for All of Africa
Less than 2 percent of all COVID vaccine doses administered globally have gone to people in Africa.
Doctors Without Borders Implores US, EU to Stop Blocking Vaccine Patent Waiver
The proposal would enable the mass production of generic coronavirus vaccines to meet the dire needs of poor countries.
The WTO Stopped Millions of People From Receiving a COVID-19 Vaccine
The World Trade Organization’s most powerful members quashed a proposal to waive vaccine patents for poorer countries.
Nobel Laureates, Ex-World Leaders Urge Biden to Back WTO Waiver for Vaccines
Waiving World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property rules will speed up global vaccine access.
Resuscitating Normalcy Will Kill Us. What We Need Is a Just Recovery.Â
What kind of world are we trying to imagine into being?
Vaccines Are Still Overwhelmingly Our Best Weapon Against COVID
Even as concerns are raised, we must remember vaccines are by far the best weapon we have in this fight.
Only 0.2 Percent of COVID Vaccines Have Gone to Poor Countries
Experts warn this inequity will persist unless rich countries end their obstruction of efforts to suspend drug patents.