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Leading health experts have conflicting views on whether it is the right move to strip pharmaceutical companies of the intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines. While the World Health Organisation (WHO) welcomed the decision by the US on Wednesday to waive its IP rights - calling it a “watershed moment” - some scientists warn the move could backfire. Dr Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, has pushed back against the global calls, warning it may not be the best way to actually improve vaccine access. In an interview this week Dr Fauci, the head of the US’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he was “agnostic” about the idea of waiving rights as it may not be “the fastest and most efficient way” of getting shots in arms. “If you take too long, people are going to die,” he told the Financial Times. “There are other ways to ramp up vaccine production around
An average of 7 in 10 across G7 countries think their governments should force big pharma to share vaccine know-how
An average of 7 in 10 across G7 countries think their governments should force big pharma to share vaccine know-how
An average of 7 in 10 across G7 countries think their governments should force big pharma to share vaccine know-how
Date: 5 May 2021
G7 governments still refusing to waive intellectual property on Covid-19 vaccines, despite widespread public support
People’s Vaccine Alliance calls for G7 leaders to support a vaccine patent waiver at today’s foreign and development ministers meeting in London.
A supermajority of people in G7 countries believe that governments should ensure pharmaceutical companies share the formulas and technology to their vaccines, according to new polling from the People’s Vaccine Alliance.
Oxfam reaction to announcement that G7 will work with industry to expand the production of affordable COVID-19 vaccines
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5 May 2021
Responding to the announcement today that G7 countries will work with industry to expand the production of affordable COVID-19 vaccines, Oxfam’s Health Policy Manager, Anna Marriott, said:
“The G7 has failed to take back control of COVID vaccines from the pharmaceutical corporations that continue to decide who lives and who dies. Relying on them to voluntarily share their vaccine recipes has so far denied access to these life-saving tools for billions of people.
“Instead the G7 should urgently put their support behind the waiver of intellectual property protections on COVID-19 vaccines that over 100 countries, led by India and South Africa, have been demanding for six months, and since which over two million people have lost their lives to coronavirus.
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