Nurse From Liberia Holds 'Clap for Pharma Profits' Protest at Davos

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Nurse From Liberia Holds 'Clap for Pharma Profits' Protest at Davos
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'Me and my frontline colleagues saw pain, misery, death,' says Liberian nurse George Poe Williams. 'Bourla and the other Pharma executives here in Davos saw a chance to pump up profits.'

"While Pfizer CEO Bourla is pondering how to morally get away with $24 million in pay/year, frontline worker and nurse George Poe Williams is calling out pharma's role in blocking access to lifesaving tools by not waiving patents,"In Liberia, only about 28% of the population is fully vaccinated,the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. In at least 17 countries, less than 10% of people have been fully inoculated against the coronavirus. In Haiti, the figure is just over 1%.

Liberia is one of more than 100 countries that support a World Trade Organization Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement waiver, an Indian and South African proposal aimed at tackling vaccine inequity that would suspend coronavirus-related patents for the duration of the pandemic. The

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