📰 TODAY: Stockholder and international #NGO #Oxfam will be introducing resolutions at the annual shareholders meetings of #Pfizer #Moderna and #JNJ, demanding they #OpenSource their #COVID #vaccines for global equity to help speed an end to the #pandemic
Presentations to be made by the Director-General of #WHO and others.
if you agree.
@downey And they should be retroactive.
@CarpaccioDiScienza Maybe, but I haven't seem strong data either way. What I do know is the distribution + promotion systems aren't yet in place (funded) to convince people to walk many hours each way to get a shot because all the (scarce) money is going to the manufacturers.
@downey If you mean by "strong data" that are from the LMICs, then this is hard to have. The transparency is near zero. Most collected information came from efforts done by non-gov civic underfunded vaccine communication and acceptance agencies in the MENA for example. There are several published papers on PubMed the methodologies are "meh".
Merck seems to have donated royalty-free licensing of molnupiravir, an antiviral used to treat COVID-19 patients to the UN Medicines Patent Pool. Pfizer did the same shortly after with another antiviral, paxlovid. Well done them!
Can’t find any of the vaccine recipes with the same kind of deal.
It’s just a crazy waste of resources - these people could be researching new treatments instead of being forced to reverse engineer the Moderna vaccine!
@downey Gov's need laws/constitutional amendments that government funding creates open access.