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.
The #EU must put the right to health of billions of people ahead of protecting pharmaceutical companies at today’s WTO meeting. @amnesty has joined 100+ organisations in calling on them to do so. #PeoplesVaccine
Civil society letter on supporting the proposal to a waiver from certain provisions under the TRIPS…
amnesty.eu
See Amnesty EU’s other Tweets
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.
The @moderna_tx#COVID19 vaccine can be a genuine game-changer – if they share its technology.
Millions of lives and livelihoods are at stake.
#PeoplesVaccine
Read more: oxf.am/3kzBWBl
Moderna @moderna_tx
·
We just announced that mRNA-1273, our COVID-19 vaccine candidate, has met its primary efficacy endpoint in the first interim analysis of the Phase 3 COVE study.
Read more: buff.ly/3puVGK6
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.”
Heidi Chow
@hidschow
A handful of rich countries are blocking a proposal supported by almost 100 countries to suspend patents on Covid19 vaccines. These same wealthy countries have already hoarded vaccine doses in advance, leaving very little or none for poorer countries #TRIPSWaiver#PeoplesVaccine
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“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.
Gerry Simpson @GerrySimpsonHRW
In case #Syria & other repressive governments deny part of population access to #COVID19 vaccine, France leads call on rich nations to give part of vaccine supplies to a “humanitarian buffer”, which aid groups could distribute bit.ly/3fg2Ltj@HRWbit.ly/3fgVQQt
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…..)