Rally to Vaccinate the World And End the Pandemic
Start: 2021-10-28 16:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
End: 2021-10-28 18:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
This is a virtual event
Join hundreds of supporters in Washington DC at McPherson Square at 4pm on October 28th to put pressure on the administration and ensure that we enact a real plan to vaccinate the world and end the pandemic.
The administration has no plan to vaccinate the world and at the current
pace, millions of people in the Global South will not get access to the
vaccine for years. This is not only a human rights crisis, it’s also a
threat to the safety of Global North residents and the entire global
economy. The Delta Variant that has led to an 80% increase in deaths in
Africa and causing devastating surges in the Global North, is just the
first of many examples.
Public experts have
reached consensus about a set of policies that would address the root
cause of the virus: Lower barriers to production, share the recipes for
the vaccines, and fund manufacturing hubs around the world.
These
are common sense solutions, and we had a historic victory to achieve
this agenda. On May 5 we won US government support for the TRIPS Waiver
that lowers barriers to vaccine production in the Global South. After
organizing rallies around the country, virtual events that engaged tens
of thousands, and congressional outreach, our broad coalition pushed the
US government to change its position.
Yet, this was only a
partial win and we still need billions more vaccines to truly end the
pandemic. The problem is that the pharmaceutical industry has been
spending record amounts of money to fight equitable public health
measures and maintain the status quo. Their pressure has created a
political impasse, with world leaders dragging their feet on
implementing the TRIPS waiver and the other common sense measures.
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