In past newsletters we have shared how vaccine hoarding and patent enforcement inequitably impacts countries in the Global South.
Today's action is to watch Dr. Ayoade Alakija shed light on how this behavior led to the current injustices African countries are facing with the Omicron COVID variant. In addition to potentially dangerous variants having the opportunity to develop due to lack of access to vaccines, now sweeping travel bans are singling out Africa even though cases have been discovered in Europe and North America.