News Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show
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🗓️ 10 April 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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In this public News Brief, we break down the PR campaign against activists who want intellectual property rules suspended so that poor countries can manufacture their own generic vaccines. With guest Peter Maybarduk of Public Citizen.
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| 0:31.2 | here to talk about today is actually a follow-up on an episode we did back in January about |
| 0:37.1 | vaccine apartheid. And I think that what we're seeing now are some indications maybe over |
| 0:44.8 | the past couple of weeks that the Biden administration may be considering warming up to thinking |
| 0:50.8 | about and then evaluating whether or not maybe they should think some more about supporting |
| 0:57.5 | a waiver to trips. The intellectual property regime that if there is a waiver would allow |
| 1:05.0 | the recipes for effective COVID-19 vaccines to be shared beyond their proprietary privately |
| 1:13.6 | owned corporate boundaries. And therefore, other countries around the world would be able |
| 1:18.5 | to produce vaccines to save millions of lives. So, Adam, we've been seeing this report |
| 1:25.6 | about Biden maybe thinking about it for a little while now and we wanted to dig in a bit |
| 1:31.1 | deeper. Yeah, so the ultimate moral chip shot, |
| 1:34.2 | which is an effort to allow countries to manufacture vaccines for cheap so they can scale |
| 1:40.8 | up much faster. As of now, most countries in the global south that are poor, specifically |
| 1:45.6 | Africa are not reportedly supposed to get vaccinated till mid-2024 and that's even being |
| 1:50.2 | generous. There was a report just a couple months ago from CNN that said that more than 130 |
| 1:56.1 | countries have not even given a single shot to anyone in their population while just about |
| 2:03.1 | 10 countries have already dispersed 75% of all vaccines given. That was two months ago. |
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