you and i have been talking about it more than two years. that 10,000 people died last week. most didn t need to. most were preventible deaths or stupid deaths. that s the catastrophic moral failure. hundreds of thousands have died over the last, you know, cynic the vaccines rolled out, hundreds of thousands have rolled out preventible deaths. that s the catastrophic moral failure. kids will say, in a few years, let me get this straight. my loved one is not here but they could have been if they got vaccinated. didn t get vaccinated because of politics. that s the moral failure. that s the biggest one and that s something we have to contend with and hopefully learn from. we may have to apply these lessons sometime again soon. i think she was talking about closing schools. you and i have talking literally since the middle of 2020, the need to have schools open for social and academic reasons as long as they can be opened safely.
some pushback and praise for telling hbo s bill maher that she is done with covid. take a listen. we were told, you get the vaccine. you get the vaccine and you get back to normal. and we haven t gotten back to normal. this is going to be remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime. the city of flint, michigan, which is 80%, i think, minority students, has just announced indefinite virtual schooling. it is a pall of bureaucracy. it is not real anymore. what was your reaction when you heard that? my reaction was, it is real. it is very real. it is whip lash working in a hospital and seeing what s going on in hospitals. they re overwhelmed. e.r.s are full. you can t get beds for your patients, covid or not. to come out of the hospital and hear remarks like that, it feels like whiplash. the catastrophic moral failure.
Biden Administration Supports Lifting COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Restrictions
Advocates say this could vastly increase vaccine production worldwide and promote vaccine equity.
Why Global Citizens Should Care
Patent restrictions have limited vaccine production worldwide, leading to extreme public health inequality. The World Health Organization has called on countries to waive these restrictions to ensure the most vulnerable populations are protected worldwide. You can join us in taking action on related issues here.
The Biden administration announced its support for waiving intellectual property (IP) restrictions for COVID-19 vaccines after months of lobbying by humanitarian and public health advocates, according to the New York Times.
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the world was facing a catastrophic moral failure over vaccine inequality earlier this year. Now, he criticizes over the distribution of coronavirus vaccines between rich and poor countries, as a shocking imbalance.
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