So to be clear what’s happened, Big Pharma employed a not-for-profit to undermine South Africa’s WHO-backed mRNA hub. In its place they propose a neo-colonial scheme to make vaccines offshore to bypass Africa’s governments. 🧵 #PeoplesVaccine 1/ bmj.com/content/376/bm…
Reminder, the hub is trying to produce an mRNA vaccine. Moderna & Pfizer refused to share their recipe. Maybe they believed the racist assumption that Africa couldn’t possibly produce mRNA? Seems they were wrong. 2/ aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/3/…
So now, Big Pharma uses a not-for-profit to call for the hub to be “terminated immediately” @ellenthoen: “If you run a not-for-profit and you go around trying to stop people from developing lifesaving vaccines, then I don’t know what your agenda is but it smells really bad” 3/
Big Pharma’s been forced to come up with an alternative: export factories in ships, made in Europe, staffed by Europeans outside African regulations. Behind the imperial mindset, the racist assumptions, is the reality that Big Pharma wants to maintain its monopoly. 😡😡 4/
The mRNA hub is so important. It proposes an open, collaborative approach to medical research, which they’ll share with the world. Big Pharma want to maintain their stranglehold on this revolutionary technology so they can make a killing. 5/ theconversation.com/africas-first-…
Remember “By the end of last month 10 billion [vaccine] doses were administered around the world, but only 346 million had been given out in African countries. Booster programmes are under way in Europe and North America despite WHO’s pleas for first doses to be prioritised.” 6/
Africa has been irrelevant to Western leaders and Big Pharma right up to the point where Africans start building an alternative system. Then they must be crushed. We can’t allow it to happen. Defend the mRNA hub. #PeoplesVaccine Now. 7/ act.globaljustice.org.uk/suspend-covid-…

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Feb 8
Just found out #Pfizer made $37bn on its vaccine last year. The most lucrative drug in history. Sales have doubled Pfizer’s revenue to $81 billion. If Pfizer were a country it would have the 66th largest GDP, ahead of Ethiopia & Luxembourg. #PeoplesVaccine🧵1/ Image
Pfizer is expecting to bring in $54 billion in Covid-19 revenue next year from its vaccine and pill. The total amount they will make on their vaccine and treatment is truly mind-blowing. 2/ cnbc.com/2022/02/08/cov…
Last week Covax, the body supposed to ensure fairer distribution of vaccines, said it was out of money and needed $5 billion to pay for syringes and other urgent supplies – that’s a mere 1/7 of Pfizer’s vaccine revenue last year. 3/ independent.co.uk/news/health/pf…
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Feb 2
After all the UK government has done to back them, Big Pharma still isn’t happy. They say the UK should be put on a US trade sanctions ‘watch list’ because the #NHS has too much power to negotiate down medicine prices. #PeoplesVaccine 🧵 1/
Basically, ‘the NHS doesn’t pay Big Pharma enough.’ And worryingly, they think the UK government might agree with them – welcoming a NICE review, though still they think it should go further. This would represent a massive threat to the #NHS. 2/
They also think we should break from Europe’s new approach to medicine approval, because it weakens, ever so slightly, Big Pharma’s monopolies on drugs. 3/
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Dec 24, 2021
If we ever want a normal Christmas again, we need to vaccinate the world. We can only do that by overriding Big Pharma’s stranglehold on vaccine recipes. Today we reveal some startling new stats 1/ #PeoplesVaccine #TRIPSWaiver
The EU, UK & US have received more vaccine doses in the last 6 weeks than African countries have received all year. Just 8.6% of people in Africa have been fully vaccinated. This FT graph says it all in terms of just how unequal things are 2/
If we rolled out vaccines to everyone at the same rate the UK is giving boosters, we could vaccinate the world by February. Whereas, if things keep going as they are, everyone in Africa won’t have received their *first dose* until April 2023. 3/ independent.co.uk/world/uk-eu-us…
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Nov 1, 2021
I welcome Johnson’s conversion on #ClimateChange at #Cop26, but the rhetoric is divorced from his actions. At a basic level, approving a new coal mine and oil licenses, and cutting tax on short haul flights is criminal. 1/7 gov.uk/government/spe…
But the bigger problem is that Johnson thinks the market, big business & big finance will save us. That means while lecturing other countries on climate, he’s expanding a hyper-globalised, neo-colonial economy that is incompatible with tackling the #ClimateEmergency. #COP26 2/7
The trade deals he’s signing will make things worse. More food flown round the world, more industrial agriculture, less regulation, and more power to big business, which allows energy corporations to sue governments for taking 👇 #ClimateAction 3/7 news.sky.com/story/fossil-f…
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Sep 14, 2021
Great piece by @tomperrett97 showing how the corporate court system doesn't only mean governments get sued for enacting #ClimateAction - they may be forced to reverse these vital policies 1/6 #NoISDS bylinetimes.com/2021/09/13/the…
A reminder, this system was developed as a 'magna carta for capitalism' to help undermine the decolonial movements of the 50s-70s, as explained here by @_BvdM 2/6 newstatesman.com/business/2021/…
More recently, they've become a multimillion dollar industry which is helping fossil fuel corporations challenge climate action and maintain their profits, often raising funds to engage in new oil/ coal/ gas exploration. #ClimateEmergency 3/6 aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/…
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Jul 29, 2021
New figures from @peoplesvaccine today show that Big Pharma monopolies are making vaccinating the world at least 5 times as expensive as it needs to be. “The most lethal profiteering in history” says @Anna_Marriott (1/5) #PeoplesVaccine
Pfizer & Moderna accused of overcharging by around $41billion. These corporations received over $8billion in public support, and could be making their drug for as little as $1.20 a dose. Covax has been paying 5 times that. (2/5) oxfam.org/en/press-relea…
Uganda just lost 50 health workers in one week. One dose of Pfizer costs what the country spends per citizen on healthcare over a year. (3/5)
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