At a time when utmost altruism is crucial in vaccinating the Covid-19-ridden world, the ‘best vaccine’ award went to a jab made by a greedy corporation that seems more interested in protecting its profits than spreading the shot.
Fresh reports on the real mortality toll taken by the Covid-19 pandemic and a galloping upsurge of new infections in widely populated regions call on all governments to urgently institute this one and only priority: to drastically expand and increase vaccination programs worldwide, using all available brands of vaccines. This needs to be done, regardless of unethical geopolitical discriminations and the greedy stance of Moderna and Pfizer corporations on the issue of vaccine patents waivers. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent population health research centre at the University of Washington’s UW Medicine, has concluded in a recent study that Covid-19 has caused 6.9 million deaths globally, more than double what official reports have acknowledged.
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