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One reader writes, "Political leaders have shown the extremists at both ends of the political spectrum that their agendas will not prevail." Another writes, "The negotiation has made many needy people more likely to fall through not cracks but holes in our safety net." ....
COVID vaccine makers must relent on intellectual property rights and see to the worldâs needs Updated May 1, 2021, 2:30 a.m. Email to a Friend This is the peopleâs vaccine â share it widely ⪠Taxpayer dollars assumed the financial risk for enabling rapid production of any successful vaccine candidates. ⪠Taxpayer dollars are funding the COVAX program; however, high income-countries have pre-ordered most of the actual vaccines. Rosenblatt writes that âthe system that gave us these shots depends entirely on strong intellectual property rights. These same protections will be critical when we face the next pandemic.â With the next pandemic, the world will be far safer when vaccines can be produced everywhere because the infrastructure will have been created. One of the lessons from the HIV and Ebola pandemics is that systems created then have enabled the Global South to quickly and effectively tamp down this pandemic. ....
To the editor: COVID cases are skyrocketing in Berkshire County and across the country. As of Dec. 6, 74 percent of long-term care residents at Hillcrest Commons have COVID. And yet, we are not seeing a COVID relief package available either here or for the millions in need. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 44 percent of children in Massachusetts renter households face food and/or housing hardship, and 29 percent of adults in the state are having difficulty covering their usual household expenses. What will it take to get the attention of our legislators that help is needed? I am beyond outraged that the U.S. has failed so incredibly to deal with this public health crisis. ....