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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVideo: Will Biden End The COVID Pandemic Or Protect Big Pharma?
Apr 14, 2021
One of the most pivotal decisions of Joe Biden's presidency is approaching. On May 5, he must choose between protecting the profits of Big Pharma, or ending the pandemic worldwide by allowing lower-income nations to manufacture COVID vaccines.
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Video: Will Biden End The COVID Pandemic Or Protect Big Pharma? (Original Post)
Donkees
Apr 2021
OP
Don't think he has much choice but to help poor nations. But thankful for Big Pharma's CV19 vaccine
Hoyt
Apr 2021
#2
Perhaps we should wait until Biden announces an action before we jump his ass over it.
Midnight Writer
Apr 2021
#7
dsc
(52,166 posts)1. I will admit not having watched the video
but I do have a question. Say we decide to not let pharma enforce their patent? What happens the next time? Why would any company spend a fortune to generate a vaccine that can end a pandemic but will profit them nothing? I don't know what the answer to this is, but I do know we have to get this right.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. Don't think he has much choice but to help poor nations. But thankful for Big Pharma's CV19 vaccine
development, as well as some of the other treatments they've developed and will develop.
comradebillyboy
(10,175 posts)3. What utter rubbish. A false dichotomy if there ever was one.
The vaccines aren't going to be produced without big pharma. The drug companies are a key player in ending the pandemic. Fucking them over isn't going to solve any problems at all.
JohnSJ
(92,396 posts)5. +++
Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)4. This is bullshit. We can't just 'share' patents that are not ours to share.
Just another unfair attack on Pres. Biden.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)6. That sounds like a bunch of Malarkey
EOM
Midnight Writer
(21,798 posts)7. Perhaps we should wait until Biden announces an action before we jump his ass over it.