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\"\"<\/a>By a 7-to-1 margin, the Seattle City Council passed a resolution<\/a> calling on President Biden to end U.S. opposition to the international campaign for an Intellectual Property Rights waiver at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.<\/p>\n

\u201cWashington Fair Trade Coalition commends Seattle City Council for supporting the TRIPS Waiver,\u201d said\u00a0Hillary Haden, Executive Director of the Coalition<\/b>. \u201cDespite this being an international issue, it\u2019s so important for cities to weigh in because the longer the pandemic lasts, the more we are all impacted. Supporting the TRIPS waiver is the just thing to do in order to save millions of lives, to secure our own economic recovery, to improve international relations and to bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Councilmember Kshama Sawant<\/strong>, the resolution’s sponsor, said, \u201cI congratulate our movement on winning today\u2019s City Council resolution, urging the Biden administration to put human lives before billionaire profit, and remove the WTO patent restrictions to allow all billions of people to have access to the life-saving vaccine. This resolution demonstrates our movement\u2019s rejection of the status quo of profit-driven vaccine apartheid and vaccine nationalism, and our fight for vaccine internationalism.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Sawant noted that as World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has\u00a0<\/span>pointed out<\/span><\/a>\u00a0regarding vaccine doses, \u201cover 87% have gone to high-income or upper- and middle-income countries, while low-income countries have received just 0.2%.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More than\u00a0<\/span>100 countries have appealed to the WTO<\/span><\/a>, which enforces Intellectual Property (IP) so-called rights internationally, to issue a waiver to allow COVID-19 vaccines to be produced around the world, but WTO representatives from richer countries including the U.S., U.K., and E.U. have opposed issuing the waiver. That was initially a policy of the Trump Administration, which steadfastly defended the profits of Big Pharma over the lives of millions of people in the Global South. <\/span><\/p>\n

Shamefully, the Biden administration has continued that policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE: Following the Seattle resolution, Cambridge, Massachusetts \u2014 the home of Moderna \u2014 also\u00a0passed a resolution<\/a> calling on President Biden to support the TRIPS waiver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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