U.S. President Joe Biden spoke in a speech at the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House, Washington, on November 3, 2021, with coronavirus disease (COVID-) for children aged 5 to 11 years. 19) I would like to say about the approval of the vaccine.
Evelyn Hoxtine | Reuters
President Joe Biden said Thursday that the United States has licensed the key technologies used in the current Covid-19 vaccine to the World Health Organization. This will allow manufacturers around the world to work with the World Health Organization to develop their own injections for the virus.
National Institutes of Health Stabilized peplomer protein technology According to Biden, in the WHO and UN drug patent pools.
Peplomers are a component of vaccines that provoke an immune response and encourage the body to fight the virus. NIH technology keeps proteins in a structure that can generate a stronger immune response. WHO and Medicines Patent Pool can now sublicense the technology to generic manufacturers around the world.
“We are making access to US government-owned health technologies, including the stabilized peplomer used in many Covid-19 vaccines,” Biden said.
The decision to share vaccine technology precedes the virtual Global Covid-19 Summit co-sponsored by the United States on Thursday. Peplomer technology is very important, but vaccines also contain other ingredients. Some of them are company-specific.
WHO said in a statement Thursday that the license would give people in low- and middle-income countries access to important technologies and help end the pandemic.
The technology behind the Covid vaccine has become a major issue throughout the pandemic. WHO has repeatedly called on vaccine makers to share their know-how, Pfizer When Moderna Refused to license the technology behind the shot to Medicines Patent Pool, one of the United Nations public health agencies like WHO. However, Moderna has not enforced patents in 92 poor countries. Pfizer does not share the technology, but provides the US government with a billion doses for donations to poor countries.
WHO has traveled around vaccine makers to establish a manufacturing hub in South Africa to produce vaccines based on the messenger RNA technology used by Pfizer and Moderna in Shots. South African scientists are making a general copy of Moderna’s vaccine based on publicly available information because biotechnology companies have not enforced their patents.
WHO Executive Secretary Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on Moderna shareholders to support a resolution calling for a third-party investigation into the feasibility of technology transfer at the annual meeting of biotechnology companies.
“Moderna can work with us to submit a Habu vaccine for approval at least a year earlier, which saves lives, reduces the risk of variants, and reduces the economic damage to the pandemic. You can, “says Tedros.
The United States has also donated an additional $ 200 million to the World Bank’s Pandemic Countermeasures Fund, a total of $ 450 million, and an additional $ 20 million through the United States International Development Agency for Covid testing in eight countries. We support the development of anti-virus treatment. The White House also said it would expand vaccine donations through Pfizer to include booster effects and injections for children.
The donation is far from the $ 5 billion that the White House has demanded from Congress to support vaccination around the world. Congress was unable to pass Biden’s broader demand for $ 22.5 billion in Covid funding because of opposition from Republicans who oppose using much of it.
Senators reached a $ 10 billion Covid funding agreement in April, which did not include funding for a global vaccination campaign. The Republican Party has a Senate of $ 10 billion in a dispute over the decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to end the controversial policy of returning asylum seekers on the national border to Mexico as a public health measure. Blocked from passing through.
