Tag: vaccines

"At a time when online mobilizations were one of the few forms of protest available to the public, Twitter was seemingly asked to shield the powerful from criticism," said one campaigner. "That should worry all those who care about accountability."

“This is an emergency that affects all of us because variants are coming from areas where there are large numbers of unvaccinated people.”

At least one person was stabbed and two journalists were attacked while covering an anti-vaccine, anti-mask demonstration outside Los Angeles City Hall on Saturday, August 14.

You can’t lie your way out of a contagion, nor substitute bad faith for vaccine cures.

As an Indian American, my family has experienced the worst of this pandemic in two countries. For any of us to be safe, we all need vaccine equity.

“Instead of creating new vaccine billionaires, we need to be vaccinating billions in developing countries.”

For decades, Cuba has heavily invested in its medical and pharmaceutical system, in part because of the six-decade-old U.S. embargo.

"The world needs as much vaccine manufacturing capacity as it can get. Time is of the essence."

“An estimated 50,000 of them die in the [vaccine] process and human interference also means that the species is now vulnerable to extinction."

Conservationists fear that if two doses of the vaccine are needed to immunize the global population than half a million sharks would subsequently die.