2m dead yet the UK, US & EU blocked the TRIPS waiver proposal by 100 other nations to allow generic vaccine production. This was done at the behest of the patent holders - the pharmaceutical companies. Profit before lives. https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1350149118396682242
This will not be possible unless the TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property) waiver is approved at the WTO-treaty enabled council. https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1350132264626225159?s=20
Oh and FYI, this happened on the 10th Dec 2020, 13 days before people went ballistic at Corbyn for this tweet https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1341720743873310720?s=20
More here https://inthesetimes.com/article/pfizer-covid-vaccine-world-trade-oganization-intellectual-property-patent-access-medicines
Pfizer Helped Create the Global Patent Rules. Now it's Using Them to Undercut Access to the Covid...

The pharmaceutical company is opposing a proposal at the World Trade Organization to expand vaccine access to poor countries.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/pfizer-covid-vaccine-world-trade-oganization-intellectual-property-patent-access-medicines
Try and find coverage of this in major outlets btw. BBC haven't covered it. This is one of the few I can find https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-wto/wto-delays-decision-on-waiver-on-covid-19-drug-vaccine-rights-idUSKBN28K2WL
WTO delays decision on waiver on COVID-19 drug, vaccine rights

World Trade Organization members on Thursday delayed a decision on a proposal to waive intellectual property rules for COVID-19 drugs and vaccines amid ongoing opposition from wealthy countries, a...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-wto/wto-delays-decision-on-waiver-on-covid-19-drug-vaccine-rights-idUSKBN28K2WL
Twitter has so much more information about this than most of our major news orgs

https://twitter.com/search?q=trips%20waiver&src=recent_search_click&f=live
New piece just out - no mention of the TRIPS waiver at all

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/global-immunisation-low-income-countries-rush-to-access-covid-vaccine-supply?
Global immunisation: low-income countries rush to access Covid vaccine supply

Despite efforts to procure Covid vaccine, some nations will only vaccinate 20% of population

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/global-immunisation-low-income-countries-rush-to-access-covid-vaccine-supply
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