{"id":16798,"date":"2020-12-11T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=16798"},"modified":"2020-12-11T10:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:04:06","slug":"peoples-vaccine-calls-grow-for-equal-access-to-coronavirus-vaccine-as-rich-countries-hoard-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/11\/peoples-vaccine-calls-grow-for-equal-access-to-coronavirus-vaccine-as-rich-countries-hoard-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"People\u2019s Vaccine: Calls Grow for Equal Access to Coronavirus Vaccine as Rich Countries Hoard Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2020\/12\/9\/coronavirus_vaccine_access\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>December 9, 2020 (democracynow.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the United States, Britain and other wealthy countries race to vaccinate their populations against the coronavirus, a new report finds that as much as 90% of the population in dozens of poorer countries could be forced to wait until at least 2022 because wealthy countries are hoarding so much of the vaccine supply. A growing movement is calling for the development of a people\u2019s vaccine and the suspension of intellectual property rights to expand access. We speak with Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni, a policy adviser to the People\u2019s Vaccine Alliance, and Achal Prabhala, a public health advocate and coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, which campaigns for access to medicines in India, Brazil and South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 9, 2020 (democracynow.org) While the United States, Britain and other wealthy countries race to vaccinate their populations against the coronavirus, a new report finds that as much as 90% of the population in dozens of poorer countries could be forced to wait until at least 2022 because wealthy countries&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/11\/peoples-vaccine-calls-grow-for-equal-access-to-coronavirus-vaccine-as-rich-countries-hoard-supply\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16799,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798\/revisions\/16799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}