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Viewpoint: Suspending COVID vaccine patent waivers will not solve the supply problem or hasten the end of the pandemic

In a recent Washington Post column, Fareed Zakaria wrote: The United States is entering a post-pandemic era. This is happening primarily because of the one ....

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"A threat to the world": Brazil's Covid-19 tragedy

Brazil now has the highest number of daily coronavirus deaths anywhere in the world, with over 4,000 fatalities per day recorded twice this month, according to figures collated by Our World in Data, a project by Oxford University.
The country’s total confirmed death toll from coronavirus now stands at over 350,000, the world’s second-highest, behind the US, which has a larger population.
Brazil has the second highest Covid-19 death toll in the world
Cumulative confirmed Covid-19 deaths, by country
In March, the country recorded 89,984 excess deaths above the death-toll average during the same month from 2015 to 2019. That figure is over four times that recorded in the United States, a country with a population one and a half times the size. The number in neighbouring Peru was 3,740, a rate per capita nearly four times lower. ....

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Community Activists and Medical Experts from the U.S. at Action LA Network Condemn U.S./Europe COVID-19 "Vaccine Racism"

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Community Activists and Medical Experts from the U.S. at Action LA Network Condemn U.S./Europe COVID-19 “Vaccine Racism”
February 22, 2021 GMT
LOS ANGELES (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 22, 2021
Activists from immigrant rights, community, peace and social justice movements are increasingly critical of the giant corporate pharmaceutical companies in Western countries for launching vaccine imperialism and racism against communities of color and poor countries across the globe.
On January 26, 2021, Popular Resistance hosted a challenging international webinar: “
The Vaccine Wars and the Weaponization of Disease in the age of COVID Pandemic” to expose the glaring inequality. ....

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Covid: US approves Moderna as second vaccine

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image captionSix million doses could be ready to ship
Moderna has been approved by the US government as the country s second Covid-19 vaccine, clearing the way for millions of doses to be released.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised the US-made jab about a week after approving a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine which is now being distributed.
The US has agreed to purchase 200 million doses of Moderna, and six million may be ready to ship now.
The country has the world s highest numbers of Covid-19 deaths and cases.
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US President Donald Trump, who hours before the official announcement tweeted that the vaccine had been overwhelmingly approved and distribution would start immediately , said on Twitter: Congratulations, the Moderna vaccine is now available! ....

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Covid: Moderna vaccine moves closer to US approval

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image captionSix million doses could be ready to ship as soon as the vaccine gets FDA approval
A second coronavirus vaccine is nearing emergency approval in the US after it was endorsed by a panel of experts.
The head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said his agency would move quickly to authorise the Moderna vaccine, allowing the company to begin shipping millions of doses.
President Donald Trump tweeted incorrectly that the vaccine had already been overwhelmingly approved .
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was approved earlier.
America has recorded more Covid-19 cases and deaths than any other and earlier this week, its death toll passed 300,000. ....

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