Texas Team Applauded for Giving What Big Pharma Refuses: A Patent-Free Vaccine to the World

[douglas9]

A small team of Texas researchers is being hailed for developing an unpatented Covid-19 vaccine to share with the world without personal profit, with some advocates asking, if they can do it, why can't Big Pharma?

"If we had even a fraction of the support that Moderna had, who knows, maybe the world would be vaccinated by now."

Dubbed "the World's Covid vaccine," the inoculation—formally called Cobervax—is an open-source alternative to Big Pharma's patent-protected vaccines. Instead of being produced for profit, this shot could ultimately be manufactured around the world and made cheaply available to all without governmental or private legal retribution.



https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/30/texas-team-applauded-giving-what-big-pharma-refuses-patent-free-vaccine-world

[gab13by13]

1. Dr. Hotez is on TV a lot, I really like him.

His small group has already given out to the world nearly as much vaccine as our federal government has given out.

Wonder when Big Pharma will get him off TV?

[Chainfire]

2. How dare they?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. A new coronavirus vaccine heading to India was developed by a small team in Texas. It expects nothin

Dr. Hotez is amazing. He spoke to my temple during High Holy Days services

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For some vaccine developers, the coronavirus pandemic has had a silver lining in billions of dollars in profits. But a new vaccine rolling out soon in India is taking the opposite approach: Its developers are getting zilch.

“We’re not trying to make money,” said Peter Hotez of the Texas Children’s Hospital’s Center for Vaccine Development. “We just want to see people get vaccinated.”

On Tuesday, the Indian government granted emergency approval to a vaccine manufactured by the Hyderabad-based company Biological E. This “second generation” coronavirus vaccine was developed by Hotez and his longtime collaborator Maria Elena Bottazzi. It was then licensed to Biological E. through a commercialization team at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where both developers also work.

Biological E. has ambitious plans to produce more than 1 billion doses of the vaccine in 2022. Hotez and Bottazzi won’t personally get a penny from it, but their employer Baylor College will get a fee.

[bahboo]

4. Dr. Hotez is one of the REALLY good ones....

when he speaks on tv, I listen. Bravo Dr.!