Biden Backs Waiving International Patent Protections For COVID-19 Vaccines

truth.

also this is either dumb or a publicity stunt.

there's a bunch of vaccines being made NOT by US companies. If some poor countries need vaccines, just give it to them, NOT MESS WITH THE COMPANIES WHO MADE THEM.

 

oh great idea, the consumers won't figure out the questionable vaccines made by some low end companies

 

I am 100% against this proposal.

Even in the US in an established J+J vaccine factory in Boston, they messed up the production wasting millions of precious resources and the conditions were unhygienic and awful with peeling walls and brown dust everywhere.

And now you want your vaccine to be produced in Indonesia or Nigeria in a converted textile factory by some untrained unexperienced personel?

There is already widespread vaccine reluctancy in developing countries. What if those vaccines are indeed unsafe and kill people on a mass scale because they are made haphazardly? It will be a disaster.

Pfizer couldn't produce more vaccines because they were out of special bags. What if suddendly the demand of bags skyrockets because factories with no expertise and not even half the efficiency want them too? Instead of producing more doses we will end up with less doses.

There are many vaccines now and even more coming. Let capitalism do its job. It isn't a monopoly. The prices will naturally fall and as demand from the rich falls, they will be massively available to the rest

Meanwhile biotech companies having finally realised the profit from vaccines will research and develop more technologies instead of focusing mostly on drugs as they had done until this pandemic.

 

Yes. Just telling people how to make MRNA vaccines doesn't mean anyone will do it or do it well. On the liability side if Pfizer or Moderna were to give up IP rights to vaccines likely they wouldn't suffer liability from other companies manufacturing them anymore than Bayer has liability from other companies making aspirin. It would be up for individual companies and governments to regulate the quality control of manufacture.

 

Reference for how long it takes for biontech themselves to scale in a new country with good infrastructure and a ready employment pool (Pfizer and gsk are already here) - 2 years to start manufacturing operations.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...mrna-singapore-regional-headquarters-14779738

 

LOL
Man when all those kids ODed on Synthetic Weed,
that's nothing compared to ghetto regulated VACCINES