“Vaccine advocacy groups are pressing President Joe Biden to help break a nearly two-year-old deadlock at the World Trade Organization by embracing South Africa and India’s demand for a broad waiver of intellectual property right protections to fight Covid-19…
“’We write to urge you to recognize the greater-than-ever need to dramatically increase the global production, affordability and equitable distribution of Covid vaccines, tests and treatments,’ Oxfam America, Public Citizen and a broad coalition of more than 80 labor, religious, health and other groups said in a letter to Biden. ‘At the time of this writing, nearly half of humanity is still not fully vaccinated — including almost 95 percent of people in low-income nations.’”
Read the full letter here.