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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.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Joe Biden has done more in his first 3 months of his presidency than I ever thought possible. Can we hold off on bashing him for a minute, please?
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niyad
(113,552 posts)says that President Biden will side with big pharma.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)Your source should find something better to do than make foolish videos like this.
brush
(53,843 posts)now he's supposed to solve the world's too?
Can we focus on cleaning up the mess trump left us here first please?
Warpy
(111,339 posts)Countries like China, Russia and India have such facilities and are capable of large scale manufacture and all have a history of supplying vaccines and life saving drugs to the developing world, the same drugs that the west restricts by patents and profit margins.
This is just business as usual. There's not much Biden can or should do about it in the short term.
niyad
(113,552 posts)waiver during the AIDS epidemic helped reduce the cost, and increase the availability, of the drugs needed.0