1/ Important reporting by @snolen for @nytimes today:
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
We keep being told: "Yes, we know. It's not right. It's a really hard problem. We're doing everything we can."
No, that's not Facebook on disinformation (well, that too).
That's the USG & Moderna.
2/ It makes no sense when you want to maintain control over the technology.
You could TRAIN people how to make mRNA vaccines.
3/ Thanks to @DrTomFrieden, @Public_Citizen, @PrEP4AllNow, & @MSF_USA for beating the drum on this:
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5/ Yes, they can produce mRNA vaccines.
If we share the recipes and manufacturing know-how.
6/ Where?
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13/ So why, again, can't Moderna share their manufacturing know-how?
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15/ mRNA vaccines are highly profitable.
There are even BIGGER profits to be made on using mRNA vaccine technology for cancer and other diseases.
Of course, Moderna doesn't want to share.
16/ Meanwhile, the USG is afraid China & Russia will get their hands on lucrative mRNA technology.
Something the WSJ acknowledges here:
wsj.com/articles/biden…
17/ And yes, the USG has the right:
healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hbl…
18/ The USG owns the '070 patent on Spike protein stabilization technology that's used by the Moderna & J&J vaccines.
We should be using that lever to pressure Moderna to supply low- & middle-income countries with COVID vaccine.
justhumanproductions.org/podcasts/s1e75…
19/ It's HIV all over again.
It's racist.
They said Indian, African, & Latin American pharmaceutical companies couldn't make antiretrovirals.
But then they did.
20/ COVID is HIV part deux.
21/ And how long will this take?
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23/ 6 months
24/ You can't fight scarcity with scarcity.
justhumanproductions.org/podcasts/s1e76…
25/ When you put shareholders over stakeholders,
and profits over people,
people die.
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