Patents
120 Manufacturers in the Global South Could Be Producing mRNA Vaccines...
A new report finds that pharmaceutical monopolies are preventing the production of significant quantities of vaccines in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
By Sarah Lazare
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Dean Baker – Why Pay Less? The US Strategy for Vaccinating...
Why open source medicines offer so much to society – but less to pharmaceutical corporations.
January 17, 2022
Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the...
The G7 Vaccine Charade
The US and Europe are offering low- and middle-income countries crumbs, so that they can protect their billionaires, their pharmaceutical lobbies, and their campaign...
Biden Urged to Pressure EU to End ‘Outrageous’ Opposition to Vaccine...
As citizens of the world, we cannot sit and watch a repeat of the horror during the AIDS pandemic, when millions of people died...
Humanity vs. Multinationals
Germany, the dark power of Europe
In spite of statements on the contrary, EU leaders prefer to sell vaccines rather than facilitate domestic production.
May 8,...
It’s good Biden is suspending vaccine patents. But the whole rotten...
US tax dollars helped create the Moderna vaccine – and 59% of Americans say Moderna share its vaccine technology with manufacturers worldwide
By David Adler...
Economist Dean Baker: Systemic Change Needed to Fight Big Pharma Price...
“We give companies patent monopolies that allow them to sell drugs at mark-ups of several thousand percent above their production costs. How can we...