Op de rijke landen, die worden beschuldigd van het hamsteren van vaccins, wordt druk uitgeoefend om een 'menselijke buffer' te ondersteunen en vluchtelingen en mensen in conflict gebieden zo snel mogelijk in te enten tegen COVID-19....
Rijke
landen hebben gisteren de vrijstelling
afgewezen voor Coronavaccins patenten...... Deze vrijstelling werd
voorgesteld door de Wereldhandelsorganisatie (WTO*)......... De
EU, de VS, Groot-Brittannië, Australië en Canada hebben daarmee
gekozen voor de winsten van de grote farmaceuten (Big Pharma) en
ontzeggen daarmee in feite een groot aantal arme landen om
beschikking te krijgen over de 'recepten' voor vaccins zodat ze de
vaccins moeten opkopen bij die grote farmaceutische bedrijven en daar
de 'hoofdprijs' voor moeten betalen.....
Hoe je ook denkt over een vaccin tegen COVID-19, dus of dit wel of niet zinnig is, is het uiteraard een schande dat een blok als de EU ('onze EU') arme landen een snelle toegang tot vaccins ontzegt....... Daarmee geven de EU en de andere genoemde landen ten overvloede nog eens aan dat ze vooral de belangen van het grote bedrijfsleven behartigen, boven die van de gemiddelde mens en erger nog zelfs boven die van de armsten op onze wereld en hen een vaccin ontzeggen......
De EU is in feite verworden tot een lobbyorgaan voor het grote bedrijfsleven, tel dat op bij het ondemocratische karakter van de EU en je kan maar één conclusie trekken: weg met dit peperdure monstrum!!! (en wat een stel leugenachtige ploerten, althans het overgrote deel van de politici die werken voor deze organisatie (zelfs die van GroenLinks), figuren die bovendien veel te veel verdienen!!)
En weet je welk land zich graag achter de eis van de WTO stelde voor patentvrije vaccins, een land dat er al 5 heeft ontwikkeld? China!!!
Het volgende artikel werd gepubliceerd op Common Dreams en werd geschreven door Brett Wilkins:
Published on Friday, November 20, 2020 by Common Dreams
By Rejecting WTO Drug Patent Waivers Amid Pandemic, Richest Nations Put Big Pharma Profits Before Health of Billions
Rich countries—accused of hoarding future vaccines—are being urged to support a "humanitarian buffer" to innoculate refugees and people in conflict zones.
By Brett Wilkins, staff writer
A camp for Syrian refugees near the village of Qah near the Turkish border in the northwestern Idlib province, on October 28, 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic. Global health campaigners are fighting to ensure that the world's most vulnerable people get adeaquate access to future coronavirus vaccines. (Photo: Ahmad al-Atrash/AFP/Getty Images)
A handful of the world's wealthiest nations on Friday dug in their heels in their fight against waiving intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, putting them even more firmly at odds with global health campaigners struggling to ensure access for people in developing countries, conflict zones, and refugee camps.
The United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia all opposed intellectual property waivers at a Friday meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. Such waivers would allow mass production of life-saving advances in a move campaigners say could shorten the peaking pandemic.
"This is a race against time and we cannot allow the pursuit of profit to triumph over human need."
—Heidi Chow, Global Justice Now
Seeking to avoid the type of tragedy the world witnessed a generation ago when hundreds of thousands of people in poor countries died from AIDS because they couldn't afford HIV medications, Kenya on Friday formally asked the WTO to suspend patents for certain Covid-19 treatments.
Last month, India and South Africa were the first countries to propose granting permission to WTO members to temporarily waive patents and other protections on all Covid-19-related vaccines and treatments until the end of the pandemic. Since then, China—which according to Reuters has five Covid-19 vaccine candidates in late-stage trials—has voiced support for the waivers. Dozens of mostly developing nations also back waivers, as do over 100 civil society groups in Europe who have signed an open letter sent to E.U. leaders on Thursday supporting the suspension policy.
Rich countries have come under fire for cornering the supply of future Covid-19 vaccines. In September, wealthy countries with just 13% of the world's population had already purchased rights to more than half of all promised vaccine doses, and last week Common Dreams reported that 82% of doses of Pfizer's forthcoming vaccine had been bought up by rich nations.
Compounding the injustice, say campaigners, is the unprecedented amount of taxpayer funding pharmaceutical companies have received to develop vaccines.
According to the France-based medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), although Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, and AstraZeneca/Oxford University have taken a combined $6.68 billion in public funding for their vaccine candidates, the corporations have retained control over key decisions including who gets the vaccines, when they get them, how much they get, and how much they pay.
Millions of lives and livelihoods are at stake.
#PeoplesVaccine
Consumer advocates have warned that Big Pharma is having it both ways—by taking huge amounts of taxpayer funding to develop treatments that they will then sell back to the public at prodigious profit. Earlier this year, Moderna was accused of "taking taxpayers for a ride" after it announced that it plans to charge between $32 and $37 per dose for a Covid-19 vaccine developed entirely with U.S. government funding.
As the rollout of effective Covid-19 vaccines draws near, calls for a "people's vaccine" grow louder. Responding to news last week that a Pfizer vaccine candidate has been deemed over 90% effective and could soon be available, Heidi Chow, a pharmaceuticals campaigner at the advocacy group Global Justice Now (GJN), asserted that the company must "share this vaccine with the world, not hoard it for profit."
"That should mean putting it into the [World Health Organization's] global pool so that the technological know-how and patent rights are shared to enable multiple manufacturers to produce it as fast as possible," said Chow. "[But] since they won't, the [WTO] needs to act to suspend patents on all Covid-19 medicines, as South Africa and India have proposed."
"This is a race against time and we cannot allow the pursuit of profit to triumph over human need," Chow added.
That need is acute in war and conflict zones and camps for refugees and other displaced people. Public health advocates are hard at work lobbying rich countries to commit to reserving a portion of their Covid-19 vaccine stockpiles to form a "humanitarian buffer" to innoculate those who most need help.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1329720095904559105 (klik hierop voor de video in dit Twitterbericht)
In Syria, for example, "there are a lot of internally displaced people who might end up in areas not controlled by the government, or they might be considered to be anti-government or pro-revolution," MSF vaccine pharmacist Alain Alsalhani told the Guardian. "There are also ethnic minorities or others who might be neglected, so typically in India's Chhattisgarh state you have entire villages considered by the government to be pro-Maoist, and they don't have access to any healthcare at all."
Among rich nations, France is seen as a leader in backing the "humanitarian buffer." On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a promising speech in which he said he hopes his country, as well as in other E.U. member states, would set aside a significant portion of their Covid-19 vaccine stock for medical workers and people "who need it most, in the most fragile countries."
However, France appears to be the exception to the rich country rule of profit before people. Yuanquiong Hu, senior legal and policy officer at MSF, told Reuters that "there is a hierarchical model, and poorer countries are being asked to take the leftovers.
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* Lees wat VVD ploert ten Broeke over de WTO durfde te zeggen: 'Han ten Broeke (VVD en HCSS): we hebben genoeg praatclubs als de WTO, ofwel 'we' kunnen zonder' (zodat er geen 'gezeur' meer ontstaat over oneerlijke behandeling van arme landen door de spuugrijke westerse...... Ten Broeke? Ach ja eens een onbeschofte, inhumane neoliberale ploert......)
Zie ook: 'Coronavirus: opmerking bij vaccins'
'Ausweis bitte! COVI-PASS 'noodzakelijk' bij aantonen 'immuniteit' voor Coronavirus' (o.a. over het eerste bedrijf dat bezig is met het ontwikkelen van zo'n pas......)
'Burgerrechten waaronder privacy aangetast door 'strijd' tegen het Coronavirus'
'Wereldbevolking moet afhankelijk worden gemaakt van vaccins in combinatie met een 'vaccinatiepaspoort'' (zie ook de video's in dat bericht, waarvan de hieronder getoonde er één is)
Forced vaccinations for all. And that means you. A triumph for authoritarians (een video uit 2018, zeker zien mensen!):
'VS geeft 1 miljard dollar voor vaccin tegen COVID-19 aan Britse farmaceut'
'GSK
koopt belang in Duitse ontwikkelaar Coronavaccin CureVac, terwijl
minister de Jonge waarschijnlijk alweer een bok heeft geschoten' (en zie de links in dat bericht)
'De WHO is bijkans overgenomen door de grote farmaceuten; juist van groot belang door de Coronacrisis'
'Corona-angst: psychologische oorlogsvoering tegen de bevolking'
'Coronavirus: farmaceuten zijn nu al doende de prijs voor een vaccin op te drijven' (bericht van maart dit jaar)
'Judy Mikovits, biochemicus in microbiologie, gevangengezet op aanwijzing van de farmaceuten' (!!!!) (een bericht uit 2019, dat over het griepvirus gaat en waarvan je de haren te berge zullen rijzen.....)