Thread by @GreenRupertRead

It’s nothing less than disgusting that Big Pharma has resisted the desire of S. Africa, India, & 100 other poor countries to permit the production of generic vaccines during this global emergency, the only way in which they could afford to vaccinate their populations soon.
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Allowing generic vaccine production is the only way in which the world can attain any modicum of safety with regard to the #coronavirus, by attaining global herd immunity. So long as this is not attained, then the risk of destructive new variants emerging remains significant.

It’s not only disgusting but nothing less than criminally stupid, from the perspective of population health — i.e. of you & me — that rich nation Govts have helped Big Pharma maintain its profits by colluding w. them to prevent the opening up of vaccines to generic production.

The failure of Big Pharma vaccine-producers to share knowledge & co-operate in vaccines production means they are likely to develop slower & less effectively than wld otherwise be the case. Allowing this is an abject, murderously stupid fail, on the part of rich countries’ Govts.

Our Governments should be punished by voters. Because, in preserving Big Pharma’s profits, they are killing people in poor countries, & over time almost certainly killing their own citizens too (because of the delay in achieving global herd immunity their actions are causing).

Every scientist working for companies such as Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca has a responsibility: to whistle-blow. For the sake of human health worldwide, for the sake of justice, and for the sake of pure human decency, they should share their vaccine recipe.
#coronavirus

Any whistle-blower who reveals — who opens up — their company’s coronavirus patents to the world in full will be nothing less than a hero of humanity.

The coronavirus pandemic has taught us that your health is my health. That we are safe from harm together, or not at all. Our Govts, in allowing Big Pharma to retain its standard proprietary model even during this unprecedented global health emergency, have flouted this fact.

Our Govts have completely failed us, on the question of generic vaccines. To their eternal shame..
[For back-up for the claims made in this thread, see @stephenburanyi’s important article, prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/big-p…
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