They wore white coats and gave a press conference, standing next to a 12-foot-tall pile of fake bones. The 15 or so doctors and scientists from Harvard Medical School staged this protest in front of the Boston home of Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel. The bones, they said, symbolized unnecessary COVID deaths.
For their Sept. 29 demonstration, the protesters had a simple demand: Share your vaccines — and your vaccine formula.
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Dr. Sriram Shamasunder, founder of Health Equity Action Leadership Initiative, is one of about 20 doctors who’ve declared they will defer their boosters until the end of the year, calling on all health-care workers who support vaccine equity to do the same. The group hopes that if the public sees that doctors constantly at risk of being exposed to COVID are willing to defer vaccines in the name of getting supplies to lower-income countries, then the issue of global vaccine equity must be critical.
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“This feels like the defining moment of our lives and careers as health-care workers and doctors,” says Shamasunder, “and so if you’re not going to take a stand now, then when?”
