{"id":876,"date":"2020-07-26T13:15:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T13:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2020-07-26T13:15:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T13:15:37","slug":"the-peoples-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-peoples-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"The People’s Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There was an item on the news a couple of days ago to the effect that Russia was trying to steal the secrets of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine. ‘Why is that an issue?’ I thought. ‘Shouldn’t they be sharing that research anyway?’

Then I came across an article in the Guardian – which many of you have probably already seen – saying exactly that: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jul\/23\/world-needs-coronavirus-vaccine-big-pharma-monopoly-astrazeneca-patent-pandemic<\/a>

I went looking to see if there was a petition I could sign, and I found one on the Oxfam website. Here’s what they say: “Nearly everyone on the planet will need the COVID-19 vaccine to stay safe from the virus. Pls sign this petition to demand a commitment is made to make it free for everyone. #PeoplesVaccine https:\/\/actions.oxfam.org\/international\/covid-19-vaccine\/petition\/<\/a>“

Please sign it, and encourage other people to sign it, if you’ve got the time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was an item on the news a couple of days ago to the effect that Russia was trying to steal the secrets of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine. ‘Why is that an issue?’ I thought. ‘Shouldn’t they be sharing that research anyway?’ Then I came across an article in the Guardian – which many of … Continue reading The People’s Vaccine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}