Thread by @hidschow, I was just thinking how much support there is for a #PeoplesVaccine [...]

I was just thinking how much support there is for a #PeoplesVaccine - to get there we need to break pharma monopolies by suspending patents and forcing companies to share their vaccine blueprints.

Here's my tally of global support so far... (thread)

Global faith leaders call for a #PeoplesVaccine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/27/global-faith-leaders-call-for-drug-firms-to-vaccinate-world-against-covid

Global faith leaders call for drug firms to vaccinate world against Covid

Exclusive: almost 150 religious heads say ‘every person is precious’ as they demand end to vaccine nationalism

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/27/global-faith-leaders-call-for-drug-firms-to-vaccinate-world-against-covid

175 Former world leaders and nobel prize winners call for a #PeoplesVaccine https://www.ft.com/content/43fd53f5-2b82-4e41-981c-8544a6ce996b

Former world leaders call on Biden to suspend Covid-19 vaccine patents

Gordon Brown one of 175 figures urging action to boost inoculation rates in the developing world

https://www.ft.com/content/43fd53f5-2b82-4e41-981c-8544a6ce996b

Business leaders and trade unions call for a #PeoplesVaccine https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/prime-minister-urged-waive-patents-bid-widen-access-covid-vaccines/

Prime minister urged to waive patents in bid to widen access to Covid vaccines

Enabling manufacturers in poorer countries to make vaccines is a 'moral, epidemiological and economic imperative', campaigners say

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/prime-minister-urged-waive-patents-bid-widen-access-covid-vaccines/

Epidemiologists and public health experts call for a #PeoplesVaccine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/new-covid-vaccines-needed-within-year-say-scientists

Covid: new vaccines needed globally within a year, say scientists

Survey of experts in relevant fields concludes that new variants could arise in countries with low vaccine coverage

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/new-covid-vaccines-needed-within-year-say-scientists

Healthcare workers from across the world call for a #PeoplesVaccine https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/03/covid19-health-worker-death-toll-rises-to-at-least-17000-as-organizations-call-for-rapid-vaccine-rollout/

COVID19: Health worker death toll rises to at least 17,000

Organizations called for urgent action to speed up the vaccination of millions of frontline health workers everywhere

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/03/covid19-health-worker-death-toll-rises-to-at-least-17000-as-organizations-call-for-rapid-vaccine-rollout/

Covid survivors call for a PeoplesVaccine https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/covid-survivors-37-countries-write-pharmaceutical-bosses-demand-peoples-vaccine/

Covid survivors from 37 countries write to pharmaceutical bosses to demand a People’s Vaccine -...

Survivors of Covid-19 from 37 countries are among almost 1,000 people who have signed an open letter to pharmaceutical industry leaders calling for a ‘people’s vaccine’ and treatments that are...

https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/covid-survivors-37-countries-write-pharmaceutical-bosses-demand-peoples-vaccine/

The majority of the UK public supports a #PeoplesVaccine https://www.ft.com/content/0a46a1b8-cb0f-49e8-95ce-f4c81f2896d1

Three-quarters of British public would back action to stop Covid jabs monopoly

Survey findings released as concerns intensify over uneven distribution of vaccines

https://www.ft.com/content/0a46a1b8-cb0f-49e8-95ce-f4c81f2896d1

Independent SAGE calls for a #PeoplesVaccine https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/18/patent-waiver-covid-vaccines-uk-variants

The world needs a patent waiver on Covid vaccines. Why is the UK blocking it? | Gabriel Scally

Letting countries create their own generic versions of the jabs is the best way to combat the spread of vaccine-resistant variants, says Gabriel Scally of Independent Sage

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/18/patent-waiver-covid-vaccines-uk-variants

Director-General of the World Health Organisation calls for a #PeoplesVaccine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/05/covid-vaccines-who-chief-backs-patent-waiver-to-boost-production

WHO chief: waive Covid vaccine patents to put world on 'war footing'

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he supports patent waiver to help countries make and sell cheap vaccine copies

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/05/covid-vaccines-who-chief-backs-patent-waiver-to-boost-production

UK MPs call for a #PeoplesVaccine https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/58063

Intellectual property and covid-19 response - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament

That this House considers nobody is safe until we are all safe from covid-19; believes all policy tools should be deployed to address the global crisis around access to covid-19 vaccines, treatments,...

https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/58063

MEPs and EU National MPs call for a #PeoplesVaccine https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/27/nearly-400-meps-and-mps-join-chorus-voices-calling-trips-waiver-covid-19-vaccines

Nearly 400 MEPs and MPs Join Chorus of Voices Calling for a TRIPS Waiver on COVID-19 Vaccines

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/27/nearly-400-meps-and-mps-join-chorus-voices-calling-trips-waiver-covid-19-vaccines

US organisations and members of congress call for a #PeoplesVaccine https://www.citizen.org/article/press-conference-400-u-s-organizations-call-on-biden-administration-to-stop-blocking-covid-19-wto-waiver-to-boost-vaccines-treatments-worldwide/

PRESS CONFERENCE: 400+ U.S. Organizations Call on Biden Administration to Stop Blocking COVID-19...

Transcript and Link to Video of 2/26/21 Event Featuring: U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) U.S.…

https://www.citizen.org/article/press-conference-400-u-s-organizations-call-on-biden-administration-to-stop-blocking-covid-19-wto-waiver-to-boost-vaccines-treatments-worldwide/

We can win this!

Add your support here: https://act.globaljustice.org.uk/suspend-patents-covid-19-vaccines

Suspend patents on Covid-19 vaccines

Covid vaccines are a life-saver for millions – but the world isn’t producing them fast enough. Every available vaccine factory should be joining the global vaccine effort – but instead many are lying

https://act.globaljustice.org.uk/suspend-patents-covid-19-vaccines

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