<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=""><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt;" class="">Omicron and Vaccine Inequality</span></b><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;" class="">An Emergency Briefing on How to Help End the Pandemic Now</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 5pt 0in 5pt 30pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">Thursday, December 16, 2021</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">8pm Eastern / 7pm Central / 6pm Mountain / 5pm Pacific</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qRToHwB_T5CIcOW-0njO-Q" style="color: blue;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">RSVP Online Here</span></b></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">To stop the rise of COVID variants like Omicron and Delta, and finally put an end to the pandemic, we can no longer allow pharmaceutical monopolies to artificially restrict the availability of vaccines and treatments around the world. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Please join public health experts, policymakers and trade justice campaigners for an emergency briefing on how you can help promote the “End the Pandemic Now” plan that’s desperately needed to increase global production of life-saving vaccines, test kits and medicines. One of our main presenters will be Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), the lead sponsor of the End the Pandemic Now resolution (H. Con. Res. 60). <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Health professionals have been warning since the start that new COVID variants will continue develop — devastating developing countries and prolonging the pandemic for everyone — unless and until the vaccines and treatments many Americans take for granted are readily available in all corners of the globe. We need our elected leaders to take decisive action. Please join us for this briefing on how you can make a difference.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Join us!</i></b><b class=""> </b><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qRToHwB_T5CIcOW-0njO-Q" style="color: blue;" class=""><b class="">RSVP online here to participate.</b></a><b class=""> </b> For more info email: <a href="mailto:vaccinejustice@citizenstrade.org" style="color: blue;" class="">vaccinejustice@citizenstrade.org</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Can’t make it?</i></b> <a href="https://citizenstrade.salsalabs.org/endthepandemicnow/" style="color: blue;" class="">Email Congress in support of the End the Pandemic Now resolution here. </a></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></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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