<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:<br class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ryan Harvey <<a href="mailto:rharvey@rethinktrade.org" class="">rharvey@rethinktrade.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Thurs 3PM: Webinar on COVID-19 Vaccine vs. WTO & Big Pharma</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">February 15, 2021 at 3:13:59 PM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:rharvey@rethinktrade.org" class="">rharvey@rethinktrade.org</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Dear colleagues,</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Millions of people around the world may not get COVID-19 vaccines until as late as 2024—unless President Biden reverses the Trump administration’s deadly position at the World Trade Organization (WTO). <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Join Public Citizen, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill), South African Counsellor to the WTO, Mustaqeem De Gama and representatives from Doctors Without Borders, for an <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/us-must-lift-wto-block-on-covid-19-vaccine-technology" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">emergency webinar THIS THURSDAY, February 18th</span></a> on the WTO-Big Pharma collusion that threatens global production of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostics.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><img apple-inline="yes" id="2B9056EC-CFD9-45FB-B4D7-1F70E23B6669" src="cid:8C7B80CB-8034-4C05-BA5A-23A180B985BF@hsd1.pa.comcast.net." class=""><br class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 28pt; color: rgb(32, 56, 100);" class=""><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/us-must-lift-wto-block-on-covid-19-vaccine-technology" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(32, 56, 100);" class="">RSVP HERE</span></a></span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The virus abides no borders: no one will be safe until people worldwide can be vaccinated, tested and treated.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) requires WTO signatory countries to provide lengthy monopoly protections for medicines, tests and the technologies used to produce them.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">These rules block countries and manufacturers from accessing the formulas and know-how needed to boost production for COVID-19 vaccines. There simply is not enough to go around.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">That’s why 100 nations are supporting a temporary, emergency “TRIPS waiver,” introduced by South Africa and India, for COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostics.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The United States has come out on the side of Big Pharma and is leading the effort to block this emergency waiver!<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Continued U.S. opposition will mean needless suffering and loss of life. And if there are outbreaks anywhere, mutations could create variants that are not susceptible to current vaccines or are more infectious or more deadly. Implementing the waiver is also critical to reboot the global economy on which so much of the U.S. economy relies.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">There can be no end to the public health crises and resulting economic crises, here or anywhere, if people in developing countries cannot access vaccines and treatments.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/us-must-lift-wto-block-on-covid-19-vaccine-technology/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">RSVP: Join us on Thursday, February 18th at 3 PM ET to learn what you can do right now to ask President Biden to support this emergency waiver at the WTO.</span></a></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hope to see you there,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Ryan</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>