THREAD: Today’s @WHO +partners’ announcement of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator to develop vaccines, therapeutics+other innovations to beat the #COVIDー19 pandemic is welcome...
@PandemicAction
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...and the 4 May #EC pledging conference will be a great opportunity to put a substantial down-payment on these efforts: all countries will need to step up, for the $8bn needed *as well as* the $7.4bn @gavi needs to raise

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BUT this is only the beginning: our ambition has to match the scale of the challenge we face as a global community
Everyone, everywhere must have access to these tools, and for that we need unprecedented global leadership, creativity and innovation+to step up investments 3/4

..b/c every country needs to have the capacity to
detect,
prevent and
respond to outbreaks, because

UNTIL the poorest countries and most vulnerable groups in the world are protected,

UNTIL solutions are global,

*EVERYONE* remains at risk.

ENDS

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