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Thanks for signing the petition urging Joe Biden to fight for vaccines. Can you also let Surgeon General Nominee know we need action? Click the tweet below to send to Biden Surgeon General Nominee and COVID-19 Advisory Board Co-chair Vivek Murthy! ACTION: Send a Tweet to Joe Biden's Surgeon General nominee calling for the People’s Pandemic Prevention Plan! Joe Biden is in the White House, now ending an era of deadly, failed leadership on COVID-19. Action is urgently critical, right now, during this time of change, explosive pandemic spread, and chaotic vaccines distribution. The Biden Team has not yet adopted all of the People’s Pandemic Prevention Plan, even though 450 organizations, 90,000 activists and 141 Members of Congress have endorsed it. With two million dead worldwide and millions more infected and suffering long term effects, we can't let up now! Joe Biden's nominee for Surgeon General and COVID Task Force co-chair Dr. Vivek Murthy. As leader of the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 agenda, if we can convince Dr. Murthy to support the People's Pandemic Prevention Plan, we'll have gone a long way towards stopping the pandemics of the future. Here’s how you can help now: If we collectively flood Dr. Vivek Murthy's Twitter feed with demands, he will feel public pressure to listen and act. Please click the link below to send a tweet to Dr. Vivek Murthy. (You'll be able to edit it before clicking send if you want.) NO TWITTER ACCOUNT? That's OK!: You can also click here to send a letter to Congress . To fight COVID, build back better, and stop this nightmare from ever repeating, @JoeBiden Surgeon General & COVID Task Force co-chair @vivek_murthy should meet with @R2HAction, and adopt the People’s Pandemic Prevention Plan: www.r2haction.org/ttmemo #Pass4PCovidPlan After you send the tweet, or if you don't have a Twitter account, you can still help: Click here to send a letter to your Elected Officials, demanding the People's Pandemic Prevention Plan. Thanks for taking action to stop COVID-19, build back better, and prevent the pandemics of the future.

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Send postcards to Joe Biden to end vaccine apartheid STOP VACCINE APARTHEID Why is the U.S. government letting drug companies keep the vaccines our tax money paid to invent out of the hands of billions of poor people? Right now, billions of people in the Global South are not getting COVID or Monkeypox vaccines . Vaccine apartheid is an urgent racial justice issue that affects people everywhere . Allowing viruses to run rampant anywhere means millions more deaths and more deadly variants, at enormous cost to the global economy . We could have eradicated Monkeypox already, but the United States allowed millions of vaccine doses to expire, instead of sending where they were needed. Vaccine development is funded by the public, but drug companies think they have a right to privatize the profits. Joe Biden, right now, already has the power to allow (and help!) countries manufacture the vaccines they need, instead of protecting drug company monopolies on the #PeoplesVaccines. SEND A POSTCARD TO THE WHITE HOUSE: Tell Joe Biden Why He Should Stand Up To Big Pharma and #Freethevaccine

PRESIDENT REQUESTS FIVE-YEAR SUM OF $4.75 FOR A GLOBAL PANDEMIC FUND CONGRESS DROPS COVID SUPPLEMENTAL FROM NEGOTIATIONS Declaración del derecho a la salud contra la violencia racial April 1, 2022 Contact: Alicia Stromberg, alicia.stromberg@r2haction.org Lloramos y nos solidarizamos con la familia y amigos de George Floyd, Breonna Taylor y otras víctimas de la violencia patrocinada por el estado, así como con los valientes manifestantes en esta lucha contra los asesinatos en masa cargados racialmente. Sus muertes trágicas son el resultado de una pandemia, una de violencia sistémica, brutal, contra BIPOC (negros e indígenas de color), sancionada por las leyes, políticas y prácticas de nuestro país. Vemos la injusticia de los presupuestos policiales hinchados y militarizados y la falta simultánea de inversión en una respuesta equitativa de COVID-19. Vivimos en un país en el que todos nuestros sistemas, desde la vigilancia policial hasta el encarcelamiento, la atención médica y más, se esfuerzan no solo por devaluar a las personas negras, sino también por matarlas. Estas atrocidades son responsables de miles de muertes que afectan desproporcionadamente a las comunidades BIPOC. Como organización comprometida con el derecho a la salud, reconocemos el racismo como una pandemia y una crisis de salud pública. Prometemos comprometernos con la responsabilidad actual de desmantelar el racismo: la enfermedad estructural y genocida diseñada intencionalmente para secuestrar la riqueza, el poder y la salud de los blancos, a expensas brutales del BIPOC. Prometemos aprender, comprender y aprovechar los diversos privilegios y posiciones que tenemos para la justicia y la equidad. Trabajaremos continuamente para ser antirracistas. Prometemos confrontar y trabajar para erradicar la realidad de que el racismo y la lucha contra la negrura viven dentro de nosotros y construir todos los sistemas que están separados. Continuaremos luchando por un mundo libre de violencia patrocinada por el estado y políticas irresponsables de salud global y doméstica que roben la vida de las mismas personas de quienes se tomó, y continúa siendo, la riqueza de los poderosos.

Climate change and deforestation are the largest drivers of new pandemics. DEMAND ACTION NOW! Deforestation and environmental degradation are overwhelmingly largest reasons why pandemics have been coming faster and getting worse. Please join this petition urging President Biden and Congress pass $2.5 billion to stop new outbreaks at the source, before they start, by supporting Indigenous and local rainforest communities against logging. By providing human rights support for healthcare and job training in zoonotic spillover hotspots, we can stop new outbreaks—and take a big bite out of climate change at the same time.

Progressive lawmakers call on congressional leaders to prepare for next pandemic PUBLISHED THU, OCT 22 20203:25 PM EDT • UPDATED THU, OCT 22 20204:17 PM EDT Tucker Higgins, CNBC More than 100 Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives, largely progressives, are calling on congressional leaders to take steps to prepare the United States for the next pandemic and mitigate racial disparities in U.S. health care. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., spearheaded a letter sent to the top Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate on Thursday calling on them to “lay the groundwork to prevent and mitigate future pandemics.” “In addition to passing a robust package to address the current crisis, we must take bold and comprehensive steps now to ensure the nation is better prepared for the next pandemic,” the lawmakers wrote. The push from the left just a few days before the election between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden provides an indication of the kind of pressure Biden could face to act swiftly if he is swept into power alongside a Democratic Senate. Some of the details in the letter mirror those in Biden’s own plan , which notes that “even as we respond to this crisis, we must prepare for the next one.” A Warren aide didn’t say whether Biden’s campaign was in the loop on the letter but noted that the policies it advocated for were consistent with the presidential contender’s plans as well as his ability to implement them. The five-page letter was sent to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. It called on the leaders to take five steps: Commit billions of dollars in funding to domestic health programs at the state, local, territorial and tribal level and replenish the Strategic National Stockpile. Ensure the White House collaborates with international health groups and boost the government’s funding to international organizations such as the World Health Organization. Create 250,000 jobs responsible for executing “key public health initiatives” such as contact tracing and disease surveillance. Address racial disparities by ensuring “everyone in America has access to high-quality health care” as well as requiring companies developing or producing future pandemic therapeutics or vaccines with federal funding to make pricing “reasonable.” Halt environmental degradation, including wildlife trafficking and deforestation, which can contribute to the growth of pandemics. In addition to Warren and Khanna, 139 other Democrats signed the letter, including Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. In the House, three members of the “squad” — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts — also signed. Read the full letter.

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COVID, CLIMA Y COMUNIDAD HACIENDO CONEXIONES PARA ALCANZAR LA JUSTICIA PARA TODOS Este Web-In del Derecho a la Salud utilizará una lente participativa centrada en la comunidad para explorar cómo se conectan COVID-19 y el clima. Después de aprender de un panel de oradores con amplia experiencia en movilización comunitaria, justicia climática y One Health, nos organizaremos en pequeños grupos interactivos que visualizan y cocrean soluciones sostenibles para optimizar la salud planetaria, prevenir futuras pandemias y lograr justicia para todos . Al cultivar modelos para una colaboración efectiva dentro de nuestra comunidad global diversa, juntos crearemos el impulso para un movimiento transformador que vincule directamente la sostenibilidad ambiental con la salud humana. ¡Únase a nosotros el martes 4 de agosto a las 8:00 AM PST / 11:00 AM EST para un ayuntamiento virtual! Nuestros distinguidos oradores informarán a los medios sobre un conjunto de recomendaciones hechas por más de 1,500 profesionales de la salud y expertos que instan a Joe Biden a adoptar un conjunto de políticas para detener la crisis ahora, reconstruir un mundo mejor y prevenir las pandemias del futuro. Los oradores también comentarán sobre el estado de las negociaciones de COVID-4 en curso en el Congreso. Tenemos el honor de albergar a estos líderes dinámicos: Jeffrey Sachs, PhD Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, es un profesor de economía de renombre mundial, autor superventas, líder en desarrollo sostenible y asesor principal de la ONU. Es un destacado experto en desarrollo económico, macroeconomía global, el escape de la pobreza extrema, el control del SIDA, la malaria y otras enfermedades, y la batalla contra el cambio climático inducido por el hombre. Sachs fue co-receptor del Premio Blue Planet por su liderazgo ambiental y ha sido nombrado dos veces entre los líderes mundiales más influyentes de la revista Time. El New York Times calificó a Sachs como "probablemente el economista más importante del mundo". Los profesores Sachs se desempeñan como Director del Centro para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Universidad de Columbia y fue Director del Instituto de la Tierra de 2002 a 2016. Abdul El-Sayed, MD Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, es médico, epidemiólogo, activista progresista, educador, autor, orador y presentador de podcast. Es presidente de Southpaw Michigan y colaborador político en CNN. Es autor de Healing Politics, y pide una política de empatía para curar nuestra epidemia de inseguridad, y el próximo Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide with Dr. Micah Johnson. Es el presentador de "America Dissected", un podcast de Crooked Media, que va más allá de los titulares para explorar lo que realmente importa para nuestra salud. Es un Académico Residente en la Universidad Estatal de Wayne y en la Universidad Americana que enseña sobre la interacción de la salud pública, las políticas públicas y la política. Rishi Rattan, MD Rishi Rattan, MD, es profesor asociado de cirugía en la Universidad de Miami y cirujano de traumatología y cuidados críticos en el Jackson Memorial Hospital, uno de los hospitales públicos más grandes del país. Actualmente está en primera línea en el epicentro actual de la pandemia de COVID. El Dr. Rattan ocupa múltiples puestos de campo y docentes en el Sistema Médico Nacional de Desastres en respuesta a desastres y emergencias. Él capacita a agencias civiles, gubernamentales y militares nacionales y extranjeras en respuesta a emergencias en desastres, situaciones humanitarias, conflictos y otros entornos austeros. Da conferencias en universidades y escuelas profesionales a nivel internacional. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en prensa científica y popular y traducido a múltiples idiomas. Hannah Lichtsinn, MD Hannah Lichtsinn, MD, FAAP, es internista y pediatra de HealthPartners en St. Paul, MN y profesora asistente de medicina en la Universidad de Minnesota. Es cofundadora de la Minnesota Immigrant Health Alliance (MIHA), copresidenta de la organización de defensa de la salud Our Stories. Our Health., Y miembro de la junta del capítulo de Minnesota de la Academia Estadounidense de Pediatría (MNAPP). También es miembro de 2020-2021 de Líderes en Políticas de Salud de la Sociedad de Medicina Interna General (SGIM). LECTURAS INTERESANTES THINK GLOBAL HEALTH How to Tackle Global Problems in an Age of Populism By Chris Collins and Mark P. Lagon READ TEDMED Lessons from Rwanda's journey to an equitable health system By Dr. Agnes Binagwaho WATCH NEW YORK TIMES ‘The Biggest Monster’ Is Spreading. And It’s Not the Coronavirus. By Apoorva Mandavilli READ