<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=""><div class="">Hi everyone,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do you know any nurses, doctors, EMTs, medical students or other health professionals who’d support calls for global COVID vaccine and treatment equity? If so, please encourage them to sign the letter below. Their voices can really help make a difference!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Arthur Stamoulis, Executive Director</div><div class="">CITIZENS TRADE CAMPAIGN</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Online: <a href="http://citizenstrade.org" class="">citizenstrade.org</a></div><div class="">Twitter: @citizenstrade</div><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><i class="">Pls forward where appropriate</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Calling on Nurses, Doctors, EMTs, Medical Students & Other Health Professionals</i></b></font></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 36px;"><b class="">Please Sign the Medical Professionals Letter for Global COVID Vaccine & Treatment Equity</b></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Read & sign the letter here: <a href="https://forms.gle/9izHiY6Dqvc5adGf6" class="">https://forms.gle/9izHiY6Dqvc5adGf6</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are you a nurse, doctor, EMT, medical student or other medical professional who has witnessed the devastating effects of COVID-19? If so, please sign this open letter calling on President Biden to use the full power of the U.S. government to increase access to COVID vaccines, treatments and diagnostics around the world.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The percentage of people in low-income countries with access to COVID vaccination remains dangerously small. The failure to address critical vaccine and treatment shortfalls is causing needless death and suffering abroad — while also enabling dangerous variants to develop that threaten the progress made in countries like our own that are highly vaccinated in comparison. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Medical professionals are asked to <a href="https://forms.gle/9izHiY6Dqvc5adGf6" class=""><b class="">please sign the following letter</b></a> in support of COVID vaccine and treatment equity:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="">LETTER TEXT:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Dear President Biden:</div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">We are nurses, doctors, emergency medical technicians, medical students and others across a range of healthcare professions who have witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of COVID-19. </div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">As we continue doing all in our power to bring an end this deadly pandemic, we ask that you please do the same by using the full power of the presidency to get vaccines, diagnostic tools and therapeutics to everyone who needs them around the globe.</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">It pains us to note that still only a very small fraction of the populations of low-income countries have received any dose of a COVID vaccine. This scarcity is not only unjust and guarantees continued death and economic suffering abroad — it is also directly responsible for the rise of COVID variants like Delta that have undermined so much of our domestic progress against the coronavirus. Failure to address the global need for vaccines and treatments is prolonging the pandemic everywhere.</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">That pharmaceutical monopolies are being allowed to prevent COVID vaccines, test kits and treatments from being produced in as many places as possible as quickly as possible is particularly dangerous and unconscionable. To enable an urgently-needed increase in global vaccine and treatment production, we ask that your administration please:</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Actively cooperate with South Africa, India and other nations to secure a comprehensive and effective emergency waiver of global intellectual property rules so that countries can start producing COVID vaccines, test kits and treatments themselves without waiting around any longer for the permission of pharmaceutical monopolies;</div></div><div class=""><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Leverage the U.S. government’s massive investment in vaccine development, as well as all its existing legal authorities, to force vaccine firms to share their vaccine-making know-how with the many qualified and capable producers around the world; and</div></div><div class=""><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Launch and help fund a global manufacturing plan to support the development of vaccine production hubs around the world.</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">As you’ve said many times before, we are all in this together. To save millions of lives and restore any semblance of normalcy, the United States must help expand global vaccine, diagnostic and treatment production immediately. Pharmaceutical monopolies cannot be permitted to stand in the way of your goal of vaccinating at least 70% of humanity by the end of 2022.</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">We rely upon your leadership on this life-or-death matter.</div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class="">Sincerely,</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">PLEASE SIGN THE LETTER NOW AT:</b> <a href="https://forms.gle/9izHiY6Dqvc5adGf6" class="">https://forms.gle/9izHiY6Dqvc5adGf6</a></div></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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