Letter to Biden by global health coalition to make vaccines for every world citizen.
Klaus Jacob
Geophysicist at Columbia University in the City of New York with current focus on sustainable disaster resilience of global cities, including NYC and its infrastructure.
A friend of mine, Liza Barrie, forwarded me an interesting announcement. She works with devotion and zest for a DC-based NGO, PUBLIC CITIZEN, that has taken on a key role in bringing a global health coalition together to convince President Biden of a unique and most urgently needed role to take on the leadership to increase the global production of COVID 19 vaccines. This initiative would ensure global herd immunity at the earliest possible time as the virtually only promising process to bringing the pandemic under control. It reminds me of what was an analog effort that lead to the Paris agreement to bring the other global threat, the climate crisis, under control by "flattening the curve"; in the climate case getting green house gas emissions under control; in the COVID case the number of infections, to avoid future global catastrophe. Here is the link for today's (April 13, 2021) Public Citizen press release on this urgent matter:
https://www.citizen.org/news/66-health-and-development-orgs-biden-must-launch-a-global-vaccine-manufacturing-program-to-end-the-pandemic/