Hi all. Amazing to see this continued growth in signatories. Please know I'm going to shortly create a new petition as this one has essentially been successful. I hope you'll join me. In the meantime, could you click here to share this tweet?

Suspending the patents for the COVID-19 vaccine was a critical step to increase the scale of the vaccine, however, other important things need to happen to help the world really increase production. There are trade secrets and technical knowledge not in a patent that drug companies possess that are really important to scale up manufacturing. To this effect, the World Health Organization (WHO) had created the mRNA technical transfer hub to help facilitate this sharing of knowledge but Moderna, Pfizer and CureVac (another company that produced an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine) have not participated. It's really important that they do so.

Other companies around the world (many that might be well poised to retrofit their operations for an mRNA vaccine) could start producing vaccines if they had the know-how. It certainly may be challenging and take some work, but it's an important next step to produce enough of these vaccines at a faster rate. And we need to beat this pandemic and we need to deal with the shameful inequities in how we are going about vaccinating the world.

Please join me in sharing this tweet and stay tuned for next steps and a link to a new petition.  

Click here and thanks!