In a letter to President Joe Biden last week, more than 40 U.S. representatives sought to use the impending G7 Summit as an opportunity to call for five quick, immediate actions to guarantee COVID-19 vaccines were administered worldwide.
The group, led by U.S. Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), called for Biden to:
“We urge you to pursue additional steps to advance a bold, comprehensive strategy to vaccinate the world as quickly as possible,” the lawmakers said. “It is imperative that the United States act quickly and deploy every tool in our arsenal. Now is the time to build international cooperation and solidarity in ways we have never seen before, including using the full force of United States diplomacy, economic and commercial leadership, legal authorities, and membership in multilateral institutions. The fate of our own health and safety in the United States is inextricably connected to the wellbeing and protection of the most vulnerable among us worldwide.”
Currently, the representatives noted, wealthy countries have administered more than 80 percent of global vaccines. Low-income countries have received less than 1 percent of those vaccines. However, so long as the COVID-19 surges anywhere, it endangers people everywhere — and the lawmakers warned of the dire humanitarian and economic implications of an unnecessarily prolonged global pandemic.
In addition to the representatives, the letter was endorsed by various organizations, including Action Corps, Be A Hero, Health GAP, Just Foreign Policy, Justice is Global, Oxfam America, People’s Action, PIH, PrEP4All, Public Citizen, and R2H Action.
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