Saturday, May 1, 2021

Global – 151,000,000/3,200,000; USA – 32,100,000/573,000 I am going public that pharmaceutical companies should share their technologies with developing nations to allow them to make their own vaccine developed by the companies. Also, they should receive vaccines while the plants are gearing up in their own countries to start making product (see below) PRESS: MSNBC with Jasmeen Vossoughian; Washington Post – Dan Diamond: White House is split over how to vaccinate the world - The proposal was discussed last week by Anthony S. Fauci, a top coronavirus adviser to President Biden, and Katherine Tai, the U.S. trade representative, who spoke about ways to help the developing world as it reels from a worsening crisis. Fauci briefed Tai on the benefits of sharing technologies from companies that hold vaccine patents — a position that he supports, arguing that it would allow developing countries to rapidly produce their own vaccines, said people with knowledge of White House deliberations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the conversations’ sensitivity. Tai separately told colleagues that she’s considered advocating to lift some patent protections but is still gathering information, said two of those people.