<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=""><a href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-calls-on-wto-members-to-stop-delaying-vaccine-waiver-decision-as-group-postpones-critical-meeting/" class="">https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-calls-on-wto-members-to-stop-delaying-vaccine-waiver-decision-as-group-postpones-critical-meeting/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="elementor-widget-heading elementor-element-205be3a7 elementor-element elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title" data-id="205be3a7" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-post-title.default" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;" class="">WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Tuesday issued the following statement amid developing reports of the new Omicron coronavirus variant and the recent move by the World Trade Organization to <a href="https://outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=SenSanders&crop=18098.29412648.8161400.731960744&report_id=&redirect=https%3a%2f%2ftwitter.com%2fbusiness%2fstatus%2f1465217608500883456%3fs%3d21&redir_log=338929731609362" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(7, 95, 38); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none; outline: none !important;" class="">postpone</a> a major Ministerial Conference in Geneva:</span> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">“Nearly a year since vaccinations began to roll out here in the U.S. and while too many of our neighbors around the world still are blocked from accessing life-saving vaccines, the time for debate by the members of the World Trade Organization is over. As we face the potential threat of a new coronavirus variant, we must move even more urgently to dismantle the vaccine inequality that undermines our ability to confront this crisis. We cannot postpone or delay. It’s time for the WTO and our world leaders to step up, to finally put people over profits and make the vaccine technologies available to all, regardless of wealth.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">“Let us be clear: to deny life-saving health care anytime, but particularly during a global health crisis, is unacceptable. Our vaccination efforts will only be successful if vaccination efforts in the developing world happen simultaneously. This waiver would not only save lives, but protect against new variants that threaten the progress we have made. This is exactly the kind of leadership the world needs right now. We must work together to get this done.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;" class="">Working with activists and colleagues in Congress, Sen. Sanders has called on the WTO multiple times already this year to waive international intellectual property (IP) rules to boost production of COVID-19 vaccines around the world, including letters urging the Biden Administration to take action.</span> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;" class="">Read the November letter to President Biden <a href="https://outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=SenSanders&crop=18098.29412648.8161400.731960744&report_id=&redirect=https%3a%2f%2fwww.sanders.senate.gov%2fpress-releases%2fnews-sanders-and-colleagues-push-for-wto-waiver-on-barriers-blocking-vaccine-production-around-the-world%2f&redir_log=555698020551061" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(7, 95, 38); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none; outline: none !important;" class="">here.</a></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;" class="">Read the April letter to President Biden <a href="https://outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=SenSanders&crop=18098.29412648.8161400.731960744&report_id=&redirect=https%3a%2f%2fwww.sanders.senate.gov%2fpress-releases%2fnews-senators-urge-biden-to-approve-vaccine-patent-waiver-to-boost-production-and-end-pandemic%2f&redir_log=734022902862987" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(7, 95, 38); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease; -webkit-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none; outline: none !important;" class="">here.</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></div></div></div><div class="">
Arthur Stamoulis<br class="">Citizens Trade Campaign<br class="">(202) 494-8826<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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