Director, Corporate Power @RooseveltInst. Tax, corp gov, anti-trust policy. Watchdog. Human rights advocate. Post-Boomer, pre-Doomer. Hecho en CA.
Apr 23, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
A COVID-19 vaccine - once approved - will be the currency of life and death.
Who gets it, and when, will determine the depth and longevity of this plague.
Today, I pose a question to CEO Alex Gorsky of @JNJNews, which has announced progress in developing a vaccine THREAD 1/
First some brief background. Taxpayers like you and me have already contributed millions to developing this vaccine.
The US gov’t already gave JNJ nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding to develop a vaccine. 2/
