Australia’s leading scientific organisation has called for a boost to virus research and vaccine manufacturing capabilities in a bid to future-proof the country from pandemics.
As climate change disrupts migration patterns, animals and the viruses they carry will come into unusual contact with each other — and inevitably with humans, unleashing new pandemics. The only thing that can stop this unfolding nightmare is a mass movement.
PLEASE will someone tell Scott Morrison that ‘normal’ no longer applies to the life of the future. Global warming IS the top priority. Failure to take action to keep emissions down – to actually reduce them – guarantees destruction of our last toehold on normality. Between politics, pandemics and pork barrelling, a ‘normal’ life is doomed!
Big Pharma protecting its Patent Rights to recipes like Coca Cola and KFC
“It is unforgivable that while people are literally fighting for breath, rich country governments continue to block what could be a vital breakthrough in ending this pandemic for everyone in rich and poor countries alike.”
Drug companies have received over $10 billion from the US government for COVID-19 vaccine production. Yet those companies weren’t required to offer their vaccines at fair prices or share intellectual property rights — and they want to keep it that way.
![Cuban doctors attend a farewell ceremony before departing to Kuwait to assist the country's ongoing fight against COVID-19, Havana, Cuba on June 4, 2020 [Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2020/6/10/4e91afd0cab04c8a84f2470b99020438_18.jpg "Cuba's two pandemics: The coronavirus and the US embargo")
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