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Rhiannon12866

(205,839 posts) Fri Mar 19, 2021, 10:25 PM Mar 2021

The Daily Social Distancing Show: U.S. Won't Share the Vaccine Patent & Tanzania's President Dies

Coronavirus updates around the world: Europe suspends AstraZeneca’s vaccine, poorer countries in Africa finally start getting shots, the U.S. blocks a proposal to waive intellectual property rights for COVID vaccines, and Tanzania’s COVID-denying president dies of COVID.

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The Daily Social Distancing Show: U.S. Won't Share the Vaccine Patent & Tanzania's President Dies (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Mar 2021 OP

That's a tough one. Would the vaccines have been developed so quickly without there being... brush Mar 2021 #1

Probably not Rhiannon12866 Mar 2021 #2

brush

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1. That's a tough one. Would the vaccines have been developed so quickly without there being...

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Sat Mar 20, 2021, 12:23 AM

Mar 2021

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a financial incentive?

Rhiannon12866

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2. Probably not

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Sat Mar 20, 2021, 12:48 AM

Mar 2021

And Biden did say that we hope to share the vaccines with the rest of the world and I sure hope that happens sooner rather than later. Though I also hope that there's a way to counter the Trump-inspired anti-vaxxers in this country. They put not just themselves, but the rest of us, in danger.

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