Free the Vaccine - Boston

Join the fight for an accessible and affordable COVID-19 vaccine #FreeTheVaccine

[Free the Vaccine - Boston @FTV_Boston]

If the COVID-19 vaccine isn't everywhere, the pandemic is going nowhere! Join us this Thursday 12/2 at 4pm in Kendall Sq to demand that Moderna & Pfizer help end the global pharmaceutical monopoly & end the pandemic! RSVP at https://t.co/Z4c8tDhZVz
#PeoplesVaccine #freethevaccine

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

We have to face the facts.

If the COVID-19 vaccine isn't everywhere, the pandemic is going nowhere. #VaccinesForAll

[Free the Vaccine - Boston @FTV_Boston]

https://t.co/I27lFMyYo1

[Free the Vaccine - Boston @FTV_Boston]

“Whether it’s quick blood tests or mRNA Covid vaccines, health care technology is an obvious public good, and the Theranos debacle—regardless if Holmes is convicted or acquitted—shows the predictable perils of entrusting those technologies to a patent-enabled private sector.”

[The Nation @thenation]

The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is an Indictment of US Health Care https://t.co/epic0ySFoL

[Free the Vaccine - Boston @FTV_Boston]

@OlafScholz the #TRIPSWaiver is holding back public health and unfairly punishing countries in the Global South. You have an opportunity to do the right thing and change Germany’s stance at the WTO.

[Global Trade Watch @PCGTW]

.@JosephEStiglitz urges new German Chancellor @OlafScholz: to have your “progress coalition," Germany must end blockade of #WTO #TRIPSWaiver so the world can make enough COVID-19 vaccines & treatments to end pandemic. https://t.co/oeTgWgqblA

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Moderna is charging poor nations $29 per vaccine dose—far more than rich nations pay—while blocking African scientists from using its technology.

It is making billions overcharging for a vaccine that U.S. taxpayers helped create.

@POTUS must end this obscene profiteering.

[Free the Vaccine - Boston @FTV_Boston]

@clemoult @GBHNews As you note in the article, it’s not just a matter of European governments giving free tests to people (though they do, and it’s good!) The market rate ones are way cheaper, too.

[Free the Vaccine - Boston @FTV_Boston]

@clemoult @GBHNews It’s a monopoly. Artificial shortages and price-gouging have plagued many aspects of our pandemic response, unfortunately.

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

Developing countries: Can you share the recipe so that we make our own vaccines?
Rich countries: No, this crisis changed everything, except patents which are sacred. Anyway, we'll let you have our surplus once we've had our dose. Our two doses. Our 3 doses. Our 4 doses. Our 5 do-

[Free the Vaccine - Boston @FTV_Boston]

“but the pharma companies are already making vaccines” the point is to produce so many mRNA vaccines that the price collapses and shortages, anywhere in the world, are no longer an issue. This is, as they say, not profitable

[Free the Vaccine - Boston @FTV_Boston]

BUILD THE GIANT VACCINE FACTORY

https://t.co/TZkPVBZBP5

[Karan Menon @TheKaranMenon]

The Omnicron variant is just another example of how COVID will be prolonged if rich nations and Big Pharma keep blocking vaccine distribution.

[Free the Vaccine - Boston @FTV_Boston]

From our friends in CT! #VaccineEquity now.

[Reshma Ramachandran @reshmagar]

Thank you @wnpr for attending & covering the action calling for global #COVID19 #VaccinEquity in front of @pfizer's New Haven research building organized by @f_maviglia & team @justiceisglobal. Also terrific📸of @DrMichaelMensah & @jsross119 (&fam)!
https://t.co/3LA8DScP4S

[Reshma Ramachandran @reshmagar]

Thank you @wnpr for attending & covering the action calling for global #COVID19 #VaccinEquity in front of @pfizer's New Haven research building organized by @f_maviglia & team @justiceisglobal. Also terrific📸of @DrMichaelMensah & @jsross119 (&fam)!
https://t.co/3LA8DScP4S

[Free the Vaccine - Boston @FTV_Boston]

This is all part of a global week of action, with events across the world, calling for a #PeoplesVaccine and an end to vaccine apartheid.

https://t.co/FWdPuQLS4H

[Free the Vaccine - Boston @FTV_Boston]

Yesterday, we rallied with doctors, community members, and local elected officials to demand Moderna and Pfizer share their technology and stop blocking efforts to vaccinate the world.

https://t.co/76uBVQ3Glt

[Free the Vaccine - Boston @FTV_Boston]

State Rep @MikeConnollyMA with the football analogy 🏈