Tag: patents

Why Are Moderna’s Billionaires Airbrushing Scientists Out of the Vaccine Patent Picture? 

Moderna, the world’s hottest new Big Pharma giant, now has four of its top players sitting on the annual Forbes list of America’s 400 richest. In early 2020, Moderna had none. Moderna’s Forbes 400 billionaire quartet owes its current good fortune completely to the company’s Covid-19 vaccine. And who made that vaccine possible? U.S. taxpayers.

Source: Why Are Moderna’s Billionaires Airbrushing Scientists Out of the Vaccine Patent Picture? – CounterPunch.org

The Preventable Horrors of the Pandemic and the Short Case for Open Research 

In general, and in a global health emergency in particular we should be looking to share technology as widely as possible, not locking it up behind patent monopolies and other protections. A worldwide pandemic should have been an occasion for the world’s scientists, including those from China and Russia, to work collectively to confront a common problem.The cost has not just been borne by the developing world. By allowing the pandemic to spread largely unchecked in the developing world, we gave it the opportunity to mutate into more vaccine resistant forms that will continue to reverberate in the months and years to come. The Delta variant developed in India last December

Source: The Preventable Horrors of the Pandemic and the Short Case for Open Research – CounterPunch.org

Vaccine apartheid

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More than three million people across the globe have died of Covid-19 in the roughly nine months since India and South Africa first proposed a temporary patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines, a popular measure that Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and other rich countries have blocked.

Source: 3 Million People Have Died of Covid Since Rich Nations Began Obstructing Vaccine Patent Waiver | Common Dreams News

The Drug Companies Are Killing People 

I get to say this about the drug companies, now that President Biden has said that Facebook is killing people because it was allowing people to use its system to spread lies about the vaccines. There is actually a better case against the drug companies. After all, they are using their government-granted patent monopolies, and More

Source: The Drug Companies Are Killing People – CounterPunch.org