On November 10, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) delivered a petition to the White House demanding that the Biden administration take immediate action to increase global access to COVID-19 vaccines. While people in the US now have access to booster shots of the vaccines manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna, fewer than 7 percent of people in low-income countries have received even a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine—leaving millions at risk.

“There was an all-hands-on-deck approach to developing these vaccines,” said MSF-USA executive director Avril Benoît. “The Biden administration needs to harness that same urgency to ensure that they are rolled out everywhere as soon as possible. That means taking bold action to share US vaccine doses, and it means putting pressure on pharmaceutical corporations so that global access to COVID-19 vaccines is finally a reality.” Read more.