Pfizer is set to rake in billions from its expensive new Covid vaccine, pricing out low-income countries, leaving them to battle the virus alone.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Pharma giant Astra-Zeneca has already promised to supply lower-income countries with its Covid vaccine at a huge discount.
If AstraZeneca can, why can’t Pfizer?
Add your name, and tell Pfizer execs to treat this pandemic like the humanitarian disaster it is -- not their personal piggy bank.
Pfizer: make the vaccine affordable for low-income countries!
AstraZeneca’s commitment to selling its vaccine at cost is great news, but no company alone can make enough vaccines for everyone - that’s why we need companies like Pfizer and Moderna to make Covid vaccines affordable for low-income countries.
Experts say that while rich countries will have vaccinated most of their population by next summer, low-income countries will only have protected a tiny fraction of theirs by the end of 2021.
In this global moment of human anguish we need to come together to soothe the suffering of millions -- not exploit the crisis as a business opportunity.
Tell Pfizer and Moderna to stop lining its pockets and save lives instead!
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