People’s Vaccine: Calls Grow for Equal Access to Coronavirus Vaccine as Rich Countries Hoard Supply

While the United States, Britain and other wealthy countries race to vaccinate their populations against the coronavirus, a new report finds that as much as 90% of the population in dozens of poorer countries could be forced to wait until at least 2022 because wealthy countries are hoarding so much of the vaccine supply. A growing movement is calling for the development of a people’s vaccine and the suspension of intellectual property rights to expand access. We speak with Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni, a policy adviser to the People’s Vaccine Alliance, and Achal Prabhala, a public health advocate and coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, which campaigns for access to medicines in India, Brazil and South Africa.

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[lauramcconney]

Corporate greed has no end except death !!!

[emiebex]

Unfortunately In America whichever Billionaires can write Trump the biggest check gets first dibs.🙄

[lauramcconney]

Our government won't even give it's own people M4all.

[jpk]

I’d say they’re making the same argument with schools - they know staff will die and maybe a few kids, but they’ve deemed that risk worthy to keep business open for billionaires to keep making their $$$.

[elizabethedwards]

How very, very sad that in a time of worldwide crisis, that human beings cannot put aside differences and their greed and help others. The human condition is going backward towards the Neanderthal period. Brain development wasnt very far along then, but there is no excuse now. Arrogance, selfishness, greed should be put aside, particularly now. Help thy neighbor.

[danthexrpman]

Poor countries can have my dose.. it’s only right they have access!

[justsomebloke]

I'm glad that Mohga made it a moral issue, too many people are frightened of having morals these days. My own opinion is that a moral sense is the only hope we have as a species to survive, for a multitude of reasons.

[bayroncastillo]

i think brazil could acces quickly one of the most dangerous issues is they are so many people like India ... here in Ecuador which is a poor country the goverment is going to vaccine the senior people and also those who are healthy must give or donate that shot

[CapedCrusader]

All vaccines enjoy complete liability protection and have since 1986. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act gave the drug makers complete protection for this product. All on the market and in development. Since 1986 our schedule has quadrupled. Is our health better than the rest of the world?

[protyusgames]

Before the pandemic started you people at Democracy now were critical of drug companies. Now you advertise for them.

[presakakeya]

people should care about their own country first. this is disgusting that this is even an issue.

[ALL_CAPS__]

Anything produced with public money should be owned by the public in the percentage funded. Business' do it all the time, the public should be no different.

[janicemcateer]

Fake click bait, they're not hoarding it, it's getting used on people

[fifteenbyfive]

Just quit with all the 100 days crap. It's such a noise maker about a meaningless arbitrary but round and psychologically satisfying number. Hate these meaningless old political tricks. If he doesn't distribute 100M in 100 days, NOBODY is going to hold it against him. It's Win-Win political drivel, that's all it is.

[elcoky]

Covid19 vaccine if effective was developed in a timely fashion, but a vaccine for HIV is yet to be develop or perhaps is a discriminatory and not an urgency.

[jeffs]

The government ought to take the money that they spend currently in developing drugs and start a government pharmaceutical organization. Instead of government money being spent to make people rich, we would drastically cut costs to Medicaid.

[catnotmylastname]

That level of hoarding is really beyond the pale.

[maryjane]

We can not have this happen, none of the rich countries! I am German and I am appalled by all of this shit. And then we have privileged conspiracy theorists on this side of the world saying they would never take it. Sickening!!!!

[dkoehler]

As long as we continue to use money, nothing of consequence will change.

[jamiecampbell]

Just looked at what vaccines Australia has secured. We have agreements for four different vaccines in quantities many times the size of our population. I wonder how many doses our poorer neighbours have? And if, as a wealthy country, we are doing anything to help them secure supply?