"These billionaires are the human face of the huge profits many pharmaceutical corporations are making from the monopoly they hold on these vaccines."

The Vermont senator warned that many workers "will be forced into poverty" if Republican leaders are permitted to end emergency unemployment benefits.

"We need to make public policy choices, both in the U.S. and at the WTO, that put lives first."

"We can't count on the benevolence of Big Pharma corporations" to end the pandemic, said one organization.

The bill aims to ensure "an intersectional response" to the climate crisis, coronavirus pandemic, economic inequity, and racial injustice "that is proportionate to the scope of the problems we face."

"The Trump administration gave Big Pharma billions but refused to disclose full terms of these deals."

"This is a start. But not nearly enough. President Biden promised that intellectual property law would not block the Global South from producing the vaccine."

"We must do everything humanly possible to crush this global pandemic and save millions of people who are in danger of needlessly dying."

"The world needs it. The people want it. The question is, will President Biden listen?"