Activists Demand Chancellor Merkel And Pharmaceutical Companies End Global Vaccine Production Blockage

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JULY 14: People gather for a protest demanding German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Pfizer, and wealthy nations make the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine and treatments more accessible at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza on July 14, 2021in Manhattan in New York, New York. Global health activists, doctors, health workers and others gathered at the German consulate and marched to the Pfizer headquarters to demand a more equitable plan by pharmaceutical companies and wealthy nations when it comes to access to the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine and treatments for the disease, and asking for efforts to waive the intellectual property of the vaccine that would allow for global production to overcome the scarcity of the vaccine. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)