Dear Friend,
We have an update for you on the note below. This week, President Trump
once again ignored public health experts and offered empty promises about
our public health—this time relating to a vaccine—in a blatant attempt to
get more voters in Wisconsin. [ [link removed] ]
[1]*The COVID-19 vaccine is too important to be used as a political
football—or to be used for selfish profiteering. Join us in telling
lawmakers exactly that! *When you click, you’ll automatically sign on to
this petition.
We all want a safe and effective vaccine developed as quickly as possible,
but to hear a president connect his push for speed so directly to a
blatant attempt to advance his electoral interests is very alarming. This
is another reminder that the vaccine process needs to have more
transparency so that medical experts can review the work, and so patients
and families can trust that any vaccine approval will be based on science
and data, not Trump’s personal election interests. [ [link removed] ]
→ We urgently need you! If you haven’t signed on yet to prevent pandemic
profiteering, please do so now here:
[2][link removed] *When
you click, you’ll automatically sign on to this petition.
Together we are a powerful voice for the health of families.
- Tasmiha
[1] Fox Business, [ [link removed] ]Trump delivers remarks on the US economy
pre-coronavirus
[2] The New York Times, [ [link removed] ]Health Experts to F.D.A.: Make Your Vaccine
Deliberations Public
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[ [link removed] ]Take Action Now
Big pharma is profiteering off COVID-19 treatments and have plans to do
the same with a future taxpayer-funded vaccine.
[ [link removed] ]TAKE ACTION
When you click, you’ll automatically sign on to this petition.
Dear Friend,
It’s outrageous.
Taxpayers are funding 100% of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine project, but they
recently announced to investors that the company will be setting the
highest price yet for a COVID-19 vaccine. [1] That’s right: they want us
to pay an unfairly high price in order to buy back a vaccine developed
with OUR tax dollars.
[ [link removed] ]*Quick signature: Tell our lawmakers to stop pandemic profiteering by
big pharma and make the COVID-19 vaccine affordable for all! *When you
click, you’ll automatically sign on to this petition.
What’s the deal? The Trump Administration already holds the power to
ensure prices are fair for prescription treatments for COVID-19 and a
future vaccine. Through the Government Patent Use statute, the federal
government has the ability to break pharmaceutical monopolies on patents,
keeping drug companies from charging outrageous amounts for medicines. [2]
But we’ve already seen price gouging happening for COVID-19 treatment. For
example, Gilead, which makes remdesivir, the first medicine shown to have
an impact on COVID-19, announce it will charge $2,340 - $3,120 for a five
day course—an impossible cost for most every person who gets sick during
this world-wide health crisis. [3] This is not okay. If the Trump
Administration and Congress continues to allow big pharma to charge
whatever it wants for COVID-19 treatments and a future vaccine, the rest
of the country will pay the consequences and more people will perish.
The need for safe, effective, and affordable COVID-19 treatments and
vaccines is critical. U.S. taxpayers are contributing billions of dollars
to R&D efforts, but so far the Trump Administration has refused to
guarantee affordability or disclose the terms of contracts it has entered
into with prescription drug corporations. It is no wonder that a recent
Gallup/West Health poll found that nearly 90% of Americans believe those
corporations will take advantage of the pandemic to pad profits. [4]
[ [link removed] ]Sign now! Tell Congress and the Trump administration: The health of
America’s families must take precedence over the profits of the
pharmaceutical industry. *When you click, you’ll automatically sign on to
this petition.
What can be done? We are asking members of Congress to support legislation
that will protect against pandemic profiteering and guarantee every person
in the U.S. affordable access to COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. No
prescription drug corporation should be given monopoly control over
prices—especially when they’re using our tax dollars to develop the
treatments and vaccines!
In order to fight this pandemic, we need sufficient quantities and
affordability to ensure universal access to safe treatments and vaccines.
We deserve transparency, including how much taxpayers have contributed and
corporations’ costs of production. That is why we need the passage of the
Make Medications Affordable by Preventing Pandemic Price Gouging (MMAPPP)
Act and the Taxpayer Research and Coronavirus Knowledge (TRACK) Act to be
included within COVID-19 legislation!
[ [link removed] ]Sign now to make sure that no one is priced out of life-saving COVID-19
treatments and vaccines! *When you click, you’ll automatically sign on to
this petition.
Sign our petition to President Trump, Secretary Azar of the Department of
Health and Human Services, and Congress which reads:
As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads, we need a strong
response from the United States government in order to save lives and
rein in the costs of medical treatment. We need protection against
pandemic profiteering by big pharmaceutical corporations and a guarantee
that every person will have access to affordable COVID-19 treatments and
vaccines developed with taxpayer dollars.
No prescription drug corporation should be given monopoly control over
prices for life saving medications and a future vaccine! In order to
fight this pandemic, we need sufficient quantities to ensure universal
access to safe, affordable treatments and vaccines. We deserve
transparency, including how much taxpayers have contributed and
corporations’ costs of production. That is why I am asking you to
support the passage of the Make Medications Affordable by Preventing
Pandemic Pricegouging (MMAPPP) Act and the Taxpayer Research and
Coronavirus Knowledge (TRACK) Act.
When the world is increasingly at risk, treatments and vaccines must be
developed quickly and made affordable and accessible to the
public—especially when our tax dollars are being used to do so. The
health of America’s families must take precedence over the profits of
the pharmaceutical industry.
[ [link removed] ]Don’t forget to sign now! Tell Congress and the Trump administration
to prevent pandemic profiteering! *When you click, you’ll automatically
sign on to this petition.
The more people who speak out, the bigger our impact. Please take a moment
to forward our action link to your friends and family and share our action
link on social media: [ [link removed] ][link removed]
Together we are a powerful voice for the health of families.
--Tasmiha, Felicia, Donna and the whole MomsRising / MamásConPoder team
References:
[1] Axios, "[ [link removed] ]Moderna skirts disclosures of coronavirus vaccine costs"
[2] Cornell Law School, "[ [link removed] ]Patent and copyright cases"
[3] STAT News, "[ [link removed] ]Gilead announces long-awaited price for Covid-19 drug
remdesivir"
[4] Gallup, "[ [link removed] ]In U.S., Large Racial Divide in COVID-19 Cost Concerns"
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