Letter to the editor: Producing more vaccines

Come on, now: The president and Congress have the power to get hundreds of millions of the covid-19 vaccine produced faster, but they haven’t, contributing to more deaths. Intellectual property regulations allow Pfizer and Moderna to keep their vaccine processes to themselves. They’re both working at capacity. Well, get them to give their recipes to the hundreds of idle labs not working on vaccines. I understand President Bush did this during the avian flu pandemic.

Too many lives are at stake. So Congress and President Biden, do the right thing and help the world. Many more deaths will happen if you do nothing. The speeches are getting old. Quit playing politics with people’s lives. The president, members of Congress and their staffs all got their vaccines “out of line.”

Rick Szypulski

Monroeville