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

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 14: People a sit in during a protest to demand German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Pfizer make the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine and treatments more accessible in front of the Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Headquarters 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)