PRESS - Catholic group urges Biden to address COVID-19 vaccine access at G7 summit
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June 10, 2021Click here to read the full article on the Catholic News Service website.
A national Catholic group of over 50 religious and nonprofit organizations is urging President Joe Biden to address global COVID-19 vaccine access during the upcoming G7 summit.
Donald McCrabb, convenor for the newly established Catholic Cares Coalition, signed a June 7 letter on behalf of the group working to promote the COVID-19 vaccine and address vaccine equity in the United States and around the world. McCrabb is executive director of the U.S. Catholic Mission Association.
The letter expressed gratitude for Biden’s leadership and his support of efforts to produce and distribute vaccines, but it also stressed more needs to be done as “as sickness and death from COVID-19 continue unabated in countries around the word.”
The group urged Biden and the leaders of the other G7 countries – Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom – to “support a robust global response to the COVID-19 pandemic” with collaborative leadership recognizing that “no one is safe unless all of us are safe.”
The summit is taking place June 11-13 in Cornwall, England. Leaders from Australia, India, South Korea and South Africa also have been invited to attend. Most of the discussions are private, but a communication is issued at the end of the gathering that includes the decisions made by the participants.
—Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service
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