Vorige week was ik met covid onderzoekscommissie in o.a. Zuid-Afrika, daar hebben ze nog niet eens genoeg vaccins om zorgmedewerkers te vaccineren.

Ze spraken terecht over #vaccineapartheid...

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/02/26/farmareuzen-deden-ondanks-beloftes-weinig-aan-vaccingelijkheid-tijdens-corona-a4158152

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MChahim/status/1630129189893316609

Dat Pfizer en Moderna de race wonnen bleek niet bevorderlijk voor de vaccingelijkheid in de wereld

Onderzoeksrapport: Uit een rapport van de Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen blijkt dat farmaceutische bedrijven tijdens de coronapandemie weinig bijdroegen aan vaccingelijkheid. Wél maakten die flinke winsten.

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Here's a hugely scathing post from Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) on Moderna's staggering price hike on a life-saving vaccine created on the taxpayer's money. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity

The series of blatant scandals around the abuses of the company are damning, but the worst thing of all this is that millions of people will unnecessarily die to satisfy not only corporate greed but ALSO further fueling #VaccineApartheid even more.

Pluralistic: The public paid for “Moderna’s” vaccine, and now we’re going to pay again (and again and again); How Facebook’s Real Names policy helps Cambodia’s thin-skinned dictator terrorize dissenters (25 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

What crazy #fantasies did you have when you were young?
Me? That the patents on the #covid19 #vaccine could be waived. I tell this story in my latest paper (in French).

A tiny context: in 2021, we wrote this: https://seminairep4.wordpress.com/open-letter-on-vaccines-against-sars-cov2/

#peoplesvaccine #VaccineApartheid #NoProfitOnPandemic #TRIPSWaiver #pandemic #covidpandemic #intellectualproperty #patents

Open letter: On vaccines against Sars-Cov2

Psychologie politique : entre philosophie et passions (P4)
@[email protected]:I’m happy for all of you getting booster shots. Truly. But as of yesterday only 633,344 Malawians are fully vaccinated. Out of 18 million citizens. We are entering the fourth wave with omricon spreading. This is an injustice. #VaccineApartheid
Chisomo Kalinga, PhD on Twitter

“I’m happy for all of you getting booster shots. Truly. But as of yesterday only 633,344 Malawians are fully vaccinated. Out of 18 million citizens. We are entering the fourth wave with omricon spreading. This is an injustice. #VaccineApartheid”

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Stephan Heunis on Twitter

“Ok this guy just won tiktok #VaccineApartheid https://t.co/ShzYSokat0”

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​​​​​🕯 Fare luce su #VaccineApartheid. L'UE sta bloccando una più ampia produzione di vaccini e trattamenti, portando più varianti e morti. 📢240.000 cittadini e 380 organizzazioni hanno firmato una petizione legislativa per eliminare i brevetti #Covid19.
Unisciti a noi: noprofitonpandemic.eu #TRIPSWaiver

The world's 125 poorest countries (2.5b people) have received zero covid vaccine doses to date. The 85 poorest countries project vaccination in 2023/24. This is #VaccineApartheid.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/21/wait-your-turn/#vaccine-apartheid

It's not that poor countries can't make their own vaccines. The Global South has a *lot* of vaccine production capacity. The problem is Big Pharma, which refuses to transfer the patents and know-how to repurpose those facilities for mRNA production.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bn55B4xz21-_Rgdr8BBb2lt0n_4rzLGxFADMlVW0PYI/edit#gid=888071280

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Pluralistic: 21 May 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Seriously, that's all you've got? We can't end #VaccineApartheid and save the 2.5b unvaccinated people and forestall a species-destroying supervariant because it might lead to...a cure for cancer and heart disease?

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