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<\/p>\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle marked son Archie\u2019s second birthday by asking fans and followers to donate $5 each to help cover the cost of a COVID-19 vaccine shot in the world\u2019s poorest places.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot think of a more resonant way to honor our son\u2019s birthday,\u201d the Duke and Duchess of Sussex wrote in a statement on the website of their Archewell Foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, our world continues to be on the path to recovery from COVID-19 \u2026 While some places are on the verge of healing, in so many parts of the world, communities continue to suffer,\u201d they also said. \u201c\u2026 We will not be able to truly recover until everyone, everywhere, has equal access to the vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The couple, whose net worth is around $10 million, added that a $5 donation would be automatically matched by unidentified supporting organizations and \u201cturn into $20 \u2014 covering the cost of four doses.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a separate statement, Harry and Meghan backed the global push to lift intellectual property protections on coronavirus vaccines.<\/p>\n
In an open letter to the CEOs of Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax, the Sussexes implored them to \u201cend your opposition\u201d to waiving the rules and \u201cwork collaboratively with the global community to achieve universal access.\u201d<\/p>\n
The letter, published on the website Global Citizen, also called on Moderna and Pfizer to each direct at least 100 million vaccine doses to COVAX, the global initiative co-directed by the World Health Organization, before the end of the year.<\/p>\n
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s son Archie turns 2
\nThe Biden administration announced its support for removing patent protections for the vaccine on Wednesday, making the US the first country in the developed world with large vaccine manufacturing to publicly support the idea.<\/p>\n
French President Emanuel Macron followed suit Thursday but warned that a waiver would not solve the problem of access to the vaccine.<\/p>\n
Macron\u2019s great European ally, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, knocked the idea, saying: \u201cThe protection of intellectual property is a source of innovation and must remain so in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moderna has long said it will not pursue rivals for patent infringement during the pandemic, though the pharmaceutical industry in the US and overseas blasted the idea of lifting intellectual property protections.<\/p>\n
\u201cA waiver is the simple but the wrong answer to what is a complex problem,\u201d said the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations. \u201cWaiving patents of COVID-19 vaccines will not increase production nor provide practical solutions needed to battle this global health crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marked son Archie\u2019s second birthday by asking fans and followers to donate $5 each to help cover the cost of a COVID-19 vaccine shot in the world\u2019s poorest places. \u201cWe cannot think of a more resonant way to honor our son\u2019s birthday,\u201d the Duke and Duchess of Sussex wrote in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":69286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11185],"tags":[72902,72904,72908,72900,72906,69820],"yoast_head":"\n