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Senators and Representatives Join Civil Society Leaders Delivering Two Million
Petitions to Urge Biden: Support COVID-19 WTO Waiver to Hasten the Pandemic’s
End, Secure Administration’s Domestic Vaccination Progress<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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General Council<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
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D.C. – <span style="color:#1D1C1D;background:white;mso-highlight:white" class="">The
Biden administration must join 100 other nations in supporting a temporary
waiver of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules that now give a few corporations
monopoly control over where and how much COVID-19 vaccines and treatments are
made</span>, said Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.),
Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Chuy García (D-Ill.) and Jan Schakowsky
(D-Ill.), and leaders of labor, public health, faith and other civil society
groups at a news conference today. In advance of the WTO’s May 5 meeting to
again consider the waiver, the lawmakers and advocates urged the White House to
support an emergency COVID-19 waiver of WTO intellectual property rules, <b class="">so that greater supplies of vaccines, treatments,
and diagnostic tests can be produced in as many places as possible as quickly
as possible</b>. The pandemic cannot be stopped anywhere unless vaccines,
tests, and treatments are available everywhere, so variants that evade current
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is growing for the waiver, and at today’s </span><span lang="EN" class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/3901627169886315" class=""><span style="font-size:
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calling for a waiver of WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights (TRIPS) terms have been signed by two million people. The Trump
administration recruited a few other WTO members to block even negotiations of
a waiver. The new administration has not yet reversed the Trump
administration’s self-defeating obstruction, but could do so at the upcoming
WTO General Council meeting on May 5.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
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petition delivery kicks off an international week of action in support of the
waiver. The two million petition signatures add to a deluge of support for the
waiver, including from</span><span lang="EN" class=""><a href="https://progressive.international/wire/2021-04-15-large-majority-of-us-voters-support-patent-waiver-on-covid-19-vaccines/en" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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laureates</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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date, the U.S. government has simply refused to engage in negotiations and
blocked other countries from doing so. The WTO TRIPS agreement requires
countries to provide lengthy monopoly protections for medicines, tests and
technologies used to produce them. While there is potential production capacity
in every region of the world, WTO rules block timely, unfettered access to the
technology needed to boost manufacturing potential. Unless much greater volumes
are made, many people in developing nations may not get COVID-19 vaccines until
2024.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Many
COVID-19 vaccine originators have effectively blocked production by refusing
licensing requests from qualified manufacturers in developing countries where
sales will be less profitable. As a result, global production likely will fall
well short of the 10-15 billion vaccines needed in 2021 to confer global herd
immunity. Under current production patterns, developing nations will not have
vaccines to reach herd immunity until 2024. Existing WTO 2001 “flexibilities”
that resulted from a waiver push for HIV/AIDS treatments are insufficient in
the COVID-19 context, including because pharmaceutical firms added layers of
additional copyright, industrial design and other exclusivities to the patent
protections for which the WTO allows compulsory licensing.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
4.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/3901627169886315" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1155CC" class="">Link
to Recording of Full Press Conference</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red" class="">Statements From Speakers:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red" class=""> </span></b><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“This,
in my view, is not a complicated issue. Common sense and morality dictate that
we must do everything humanly possible to crush this global pandemic and save
millions of people who are in danger of needlessly dying. It’s one thing when
somebody dies and there’s nothing you can do about it. But it’s another thing
entirely when you have a tool at your disposal that can save a human life and
you do nothing about that. … We have the tools to save human lives, and those
tools should be readily available to all people. Poor people in Africa, Asia,
Latin America, and throughout the world have as much a right to be protected
from the virus, to live, as people in wealthier nations. To me, this is not a
huge debate, this is common human morality. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">That
is why I and everybody else in this discussion have been urging the Biden
administration to support the proposal to waive vaccine-related intellectual
property rights at the WTO in order to expand supplies of vaccines. Ending this
pandemic requires collaboration, solidarity, and empathy. It requires a
different mindset, that’s the issue here, a different mindset. It’s the mindset
that tells the pharmaceutical industry that saving perhaps millions of lives is
more important than protecting their already excessive profits… The U.S
government, our taxpayers, have invested enormous sums of money into the
production of these technologies. As a result, all people in America and around
the world should benefit from that investment, and it should not just go to a
handful of very profitable drug companies from wealthy countries. President
Biden and his foreign policy team have repeatedly made it clear that the United
States must play a major role in promoting global cooperation. As we speak,
importantly Pres. Biden has brought leaders from countries all over the world
to deal with the existential threat of climate change. And I applaud him for
doing that. But we have also got to take the lead in terms of the health
welfare of people, including poor people, all over the world. And a very good
way to get moving in that direction, to make the United States once again the
moral leader of the world, not just the most powerful military nation, but the
moral leader of the world, is to support this waiver and make sure the
innovative technologies for producing vaccines are shared as widely as
possible. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Transferring
these lifesaving technologies, by the way, is not just about responding to <i class="">this </i>pandemic, it’s about preparing for
the next one. We know the next pandemic is not a matter of if, but when. Experts
have been recently sounding the alarm that low vaccine coverage enables growth
and spread of vaccine-resistant mutations. This isn’t just about showing global
solidarity, as important as that is. It is in our own direct interest to help
vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible to prevent the
spread of virus mutations that could come back to the United States and force
us to shut down again. Once again, on this enormously important health issue,
this moral issue, the United States has got to do the right thing.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" class=""> <u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" class="">U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“We’re
joined to send a really powerful and unified message to President Biden and
Ambassador Tai to support the temporary, targeted TRIPS waiver at the World
Trade Organization, so we can develop the most effective and most efficient
global response to COVID-19 possible. We all know that we need to use every
tool at our disposal to move past this pandemic. We know that we can’t beat
COVID-19 unless we are united and unless we work with our global partners in
this mission ... The TRIPS process itself was born out of the AIDS crisis. How
we act will determine whether we’ve learned those lessons. We won’t be safe
here until the whole world is safe from COVID. This week has brought deeply concerning
news of mutations, variants in India and record case levels across the globe.
This targeted waiver would accelerate global COVID-19 vaccine and treatment
deployment efforts so we can prevent unnecessary deaths and illnesses and
suffering around the world. I want to be clear, we have not yet beaten this
pandemic, and people around the world are still struggling. We know that we
can’t fully recover unless we all recover. We can’t afford to wait. The Biden
administration has a real opportunity to do the right thing, to reverse the
damage inflicted by the previous administration on our pandemic response and
once again prioritize public health on the global stage.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer
(D-Ore.), Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade Chair<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“America
is not going to be safe, no matter how successful the Biden administration has
been in ramping up our own vaccination program, if we have billions of people
around the globe who have not been vaccinated. This horrific disease will
continue to mutate and ricochet around the globe ... This TRIPS waiver doesn’t
have to be that complicated. We know that granting the waiver and having
American leadership, we can work with the pharma industry and some of these
developing countries to produce the vaccines that are necessary … I urge the
administration to step up and provide leadership in this regard. I’m a strong
supporter of President Biden, he’s done some terrific things. This is one area
that calls out for American leadership ... This is a matter of life or death,
not just for other countries, but for Americans.” <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky
(D-Ill.), Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection
and Commerce Subcommittee Chair<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“This
is an international pandemic, and time is running out … The answer is right in
front of our eyes, a waiver at the WTO to allow countries to be able to produce
their own pharmaceuticals, vaccines to help people who are sick, to really save
the day. We need to do this now. Big Pharma is standing in the way … We have an
obligation, I believe, for our own citizens. And the money we’re spending to
help the hospitality industry and the airlines, all of that will be for naught
if we don’t crush the virus worldwide. In the meantime, China and Russia are stepping
into the breach here. We want to be the country that leads the way for this
temporary waiver of the TRIPS agreement.”
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">U.S. Representative U.S. Rep. Chuy
García (D-Ill.) <o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“This
important policy will allow developing countries to access lifesaving COVID
vaccines faster, which keeps us all safe. It’s time to reverse the Trump
administration’s obstruction and put human lives first, not pharma company
profits … How many have to die? If any of us want to be protected from this
virus, from Mexico to South Africa to right here in Chicago, we need to change
that now. My colleagues and I are going to keep working and keep fighting for
this commonsense policy, because defeating COVID can’t wait, and we’re all in
this together.” <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Lori Wallach, Public Citizen’s
Global Trade Watch, Director<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-6.3pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" class="">“The Biden administration has done a great job getting
American vaccinated. The only way to secure those gains is to ensure people
worldwide also get shots. Absent a major increase in supply, many people in developing
countries won’t get shots until 2024, so the pandemic will blaze around the
world costing many lives and increasing the risk of a vaccine-resistant or more
deadly variant. This waiver is critical to getting more vaccines and treatments
made around the world and thus ending the pandemic as soon as possible.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Sara Nelson, Association of Flight
Attendants-CWA, President<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“For
U.S. aviation to recover, we need to combat the virus around the world. Many
countries seeing unprecedented surges have little access to vaccines at this
time. That is why President Biden’s leadership on an emergency TRIPS waiver is
so important. Continuing to increase vaccine production and prioritize vaccine
access and equity is absolutely necessary for the recovery of American
aviation, international travel and the global economy. We will save lives.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Abby Maxman, Oxfam America,
President and CEO<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“We
have multiple safe and effective vaccines, what we lack now is the political
will to increase their supply and facilitate the distribution of these vaccines
everywhere. President Biden must seize this historic opportunity to mobilize
vaccine access to all by supporting the WTO proposal by South Africa, India,
and others to temporarily waive intellectual property rights related to COVID-19
vaccines and treatments to encourage generic manufacturing in their own
markets. We need a people’s vaccine now.”<b class=""><u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Pauline Muchina PhD., American
Friends Service Committee, Public Education & Advocacy Coordinator (PEAC)
for the Africa Region<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“Most
nations without COVID-19 vaccines are people of color: African countries,
India, and Brazil in the nightmare now. Black lives matter globally. President
Biden, please help end vaccine apartheid. The U.S. must lead the world in
saving humanity from COVID-19 devastation by supporting TRIPS waiver at the
WTO. Sharing the technology to mass and locally produce vaccines is a smart
investment and in the self-interest of the U.S., which needs to protect itself
from the new variants that can undermine vaccine achievements in the U.S.”<b class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Matthew Rose, Health GAP, Director
of U.S. Policy and Advocacy<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“It’s
time the Biden administration stopped dragging their heels and got on board
with the millions of people supporting the TRIPS waiver, which will save lives
and help end the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans are demanding equitable global
access to life-saving vaccines. People are turning out to protest pharma greed
and the administration’s obstruction of the TRIPS waiver this week in New York,
Boston, Seattle, San Diego, and Chicago because they know science can’t win
until it’s accessible by all of us, everywhere in the world.”<b class=""><u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Tulika Singh MPH, Right to Health
Action, PhD Candidate in Virology & Vaccinology<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“After 19 agonizing days in a
crowded hospital in India, my grandmother died of COVID-19. Thinking about her
last moments in isolation haunts me. We simply cannot afford to delay
life-saving vaccines and allow this virus to take more lives. I am afraid for
the health of my 89-year old grandfather, who continues to be at high-risk of
COVID-19. The Biden Administration must waive WTO restrictions that protect
drug corporations at the expense of literally billions, or else my grandfather
might not get the vaccine till 2024. Millions more will die. This pandemic is
not over anywhere until the virus is stopped everywhere.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" class="">Cate Oswald MPH, Partners In Health, Chief Policy and
Partnership Officer<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“It is beyond critical for the U.S.
to reverse its position on the TRIPS waiver and get to the negotiation table
immediately. We need vaccines everywhere to stop COVID-19 anywhere. Today, we
can see clearly that business as usual has failed to create enough vaccines for
the world.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red" class="">Statements From
Organizations Participating in the Petition Campaign:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;border:none;mso-padding-alt:31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt;
mso-border-shadow:yes"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" class="">Brandon Wu, ActionAid USA, Director of Policy &
Campaigns<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“Our
best shot at ending this pandemic is to make sure everyone everywhere has
access to Covid-19 vaccines as soon as possible. This will only be possible if
rich countries stop blocking a waiver of WTO rules that would unlock badly
needed global cooperation on vaccine production. At the current rate of
distribution, people across developing countries might not get their first dose
until 2024. By supporting the WTO TRIPS waiver, President Biden would help end
vaccine apartheid and ensure that the most vulnerable people in the world – who
are already disproportionately impacted by multiple crises not of their own
making – can access Covid-19 vaccines.”<b class=""><u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Spyro Limneos, Avaaz, Campaigner<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“Millions
of people around the world understand that this pandemic has no borders and the
vaccine cannot either. Right now, the US is standing in the way of a global
vaccine effort, putting everyone at risk. So the question is, does President
Biden's administration only care about American lives or will they work to save
us all, protecting people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America too? History will
remember.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Arthur Stamoulis, Citizens Trade
Campaign, Executive Director<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“Supporting
the waiver has the potential to save millions of lives, hasten economic
recovery, improve international relations and head off a viral mutation that
starts the public health crisis all over again for everyone. Literally the only thing standing in the way
is corporate greed. It’s time to tell
Big Pharma ‘no,’ and get on with the business of ending the pandemic.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.15in;line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Dr.
Reshma Ramachandran, Doctors for America, Co-Chair, Drug Affordability Action
Team <o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.15in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" class="">“President Biden must not sit idly by as COVID-19 continues
to devastate patients worldwide. Instead, he must adopt our creed to "do
no harm" and immediately support the TRIPS waiver. Leaving it up to
pharmaceutical corporations who have repeatedly prioritized profits before
patients has simply not worked. By supporting the TRIPS waiver to ensure that
everyone, everywhere has access to a COVID-19 vaccine, President Biden can take
a critical step towards ending this global pandemic that knows no
borders.” <b class=""><u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Evan Greer, Fight for the Future,
Director <o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“You
couldn’t ask for a clearer example of the ways that a maximalist approach to
intellectual property benefits big corporations at the expense of the public.
Human lives are more important than bonuses for Big Pharma CEOs.”<b class=""><u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Margarida Jorge, Lower Drug Prices
Now, Campaign Director<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-11.7pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" class="">“To restore health and end the destruction caused by this
virus across the globe, we need to work together. Fair and equitable access to
a vaccine for Americans and people all over the world is not a job the U.S. can
leave to Big Pharma. Taxpayers supplied billions of dollars to drug
corporations to rapidly develop COVID vaccines and treatments, and there’s no
reason those corporations should be given monopoly control over access to
medicines we paid for. By rejecting business-as-usual from drug corporations
and supporting the WTO TRIPS waiver, the U.S. can guarantee affordable,
equitable access to these lifesaving vaccines, and ensure that no country is
left behind as we work to end this pandemic.” <b class=""><u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Chloe Noël, Maryknoll Office for
Global Concerns, Faith Economy Ecology Project Coordinator<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“Maryknoll
missioners in El Salvador, Kenya, and Cambodia witnessed the high cost to human
life caused by years of inaction during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. We cannot repeat
the same mistake twice. We urge the Biden Administration to support the TRIPS
waiver and ensure that vaccines reach as many arms as needed to overcome the
COVID-19 pandemic.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Mary Novak, NETWORK Lobby for
Catholic Social Justice, Executive Director<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-.1in;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"" class="">“We have learned over the past year that the COVID-19
pandemic is a communal struggle in need of communal response. In the United
States alone, nearly 570,000 people have died and millions have been infected.
While the U.S. and other wealthy countries are making heroic efforts to get
everyone vaccinated as quickly as possible, countries in the Global South have
little to no access to life-saving vaccines and COVID-19 infections and deaths
are rising. The U.S. government invested over $30 billion in taxpayer funds to
create life-saving vaccines, but the technology is controlled by a small number
of pharmaceutical companies who refuse to share the technology with the global
community in order to protect their profits. This is immoral. As Pope Francis
said, ‘We cannot let the law of the marketplace and patents take precedence
over the law of love and the health of humanity.’ NETWORK calls on the Biden
administration to immediately waive the TRIPs agreement for COVID vaccines to
save lives.” <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">John Sellers, Other98, Executive
Director and Co-founder <o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“Big
Pharma didn’t invent these vaccines. Science did. Science is funded by billions
of our tax dollars. Big Pharma hijacked the vaccines and now they’re holding
them for ransom while people in poorer countries die.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Ben Levenson, People’s Action,
Justice is Global Campaign Deputy Director<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“This
event and the success of these petitions shows that not only is The TRIPS
Waiver the right thing to do to end the pandemic everywhere and stop vaccine
apartheid, but that it is overwhelming popular. At this point the only thing
standing in the way of the Biden administration is their willingness to stand
up to the greed of the pharmaceutical industry.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Alan Minsky, Progressive Democrats
of America, Executive Director,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“While
the number of new COVID-19 cases are lowering in countries with widespread
access to vaccines, the global numbers are as bad this week as at any time in
the past 15 months. This reality is sending us an urgent message: we must do
everything we can to limit all barriers to the global production and
distribution of vaccines, treatments and tests. The United States must join
over 100 other nations in calling for a WTO waiver that will allow for maximum
cooperation; and, thus, a clear pathway for ending this pandemic.”<b class=""><u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Emma Ruby-Sachs, SumOfUs, Executive
Director</span></u></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">“This
plan is our best chance to end the crushing vaccine inequality we are facing.
If President Biden doesn’t vote for this waiver, millions of people across the
world won’t get vaccinated for years. That not only puts millions of lives at
risk - it increases the chances of a new deadlier strain of the virus emerging,
and could put us all back to square one. We need the US government to support
life-saving Covid vaccines for everyone, not just those in countries rich
enough to push their way to the front.”</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
8.0pt" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red" class="">Organizations
Participating in the Petition Campaign:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p>
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<div class="WordSection2"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">ActionAid
USA<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Association
of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">American
Friends Service Committee (AFSC)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Avaaz<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Citizens
Trade Campaign<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Daily
Kos Liberation League<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Doctors
for America<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Drug
Prices are Too High<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Fair
World Project<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Fight
for the Future<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Global
Exchange<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Health
GAP<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Hip
Hop Caucus<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Justice
Is Global<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Maryknoll
Office for Global Concerns<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Other98<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Oxfam
America<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Partners
In Health<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">People’s
Action<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Progressive
Democrats of America<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">R2H
Action<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Social
Security Works<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">SumOfUs<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">Win
Without War<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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