Macri and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel join vaccine patent release campaign

Some 170 personalities from all over the world, including the Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, and the former president Mauricio Macri, they sent it to Joe biden nail paper ask the temporary release of COVID-19 vaccine patents. Among the personalities are around 49 Nobel laureates and 34 former presidents and prime ministers. In the case of Mauricio Macri, as confirmed to PROFILE, he does so as a member of the Madrid club, an organization of former heads of state he joined in 2020.

Those who ask Joe Biden the patent release They underline in the letter deep concern about “the slow expansion of access and application of the COVID-19 vaccine around the world”, particularly in so-called third world countries.

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“The world has seen an unprecedented development of safe and effective vaccines, largely thanks to the investment of the State in the USA. And in many of the wealthiest countries, its citizens hope to receive the vaccines. (…) However, for most countries in the world, the same hope is uncertainty. Now there are new waves (…) and our world economy cannot rebuild itself if it continues to be vulnerable to this virus, ”says a fragment of the letter that Joe Biden received, among other personalities, from Macri and Pérez Esquivel.

With regard to patents, he specifically states that “a waiver from the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a vital step and necessary to end this pandemic. This should be combined with ensuring that vaccine knowledge and technology is freely shared. This can be achieved through the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 technology access group, at the request of their chief medical adviser (from Biden’s leadership), Dr Anthony Fauci. “

And the letter continues :! It will save lives and move us towards global herd immunity ”. They also describe in the patent letter to Biden that “it is possible that 9 out of 10 people in most poor countries don’t get vaccinated this year. At this rate, many countries will have to wait until at least 2024 to achieve mass vaccination against COVID-19. “

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Among the other signatories for the temporary release of vaccine patents are the Spaniards Felipe González and José Luis Rodríguez ZapateroAlthough lawmakers from his party – the PSOE – voted against this measure in parliament along with the right, the PP, and the far right, VOX.

Among the former presidents who signed the letter to Joe Biden, there are also, for example, Francois Hollande, Lech Walesa, Romano Prodi, Juan Manuel Santos. And the Nobel Laureates, Rigoberta Menchú, Desmond Tutu, Edmund Phelps, Muhammad Yunus and Joseph stiglitz, among others.

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