News Brief: #VaxLive is a PR Scam So Those Causing Vaccine Inequity Can Pose as Saviors of Global Poor
Citations Needed
Citations Needed
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🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In this News Brief, we breakdown the anti-TRIPS waiver corporate and ideological forces behind the seemingly good-hearted #VaxLive concert on May 8th. Namely, the Gates Foundation, Johnson and Johnson and a who's who of global leaders working to prevent the production of cheap generic vaccines for the global south.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. |
| 0:06.6 | I am Neem Asherazi. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Adam Johnson. |
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| 0:33.2 | And this news brief, Adam, is part of our ongoing series apparently about the vaccine |
| 0:40.6 | rollout, the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and how their story remains the fight over intellectual |
| 0:47.1 | property rights. |
| 0:48.4 | We have discussed this on a full length episode. |
| 0:50.0 | We talked about this on a news brief as well after that, but calls for loosening the IP |
| 0:58.4 | on vaccines we hear from advocates, we hear from experts, we hear from medical and civil |
| 1:03.6 | society groups in the global north and global south. |
| 1:07.0 | We've heard about this for a long time now. |
| 1:09.5 | Freeing up the IP would save millions of lives. |
| 1:13.6 | And yet, there remain a faction of people not least among them, President Joe Biden and |
| 1:21.2 | Bill Gates who are against loosening these restrictions. |
| 1:25.6 | Well, technically President Joe Biden administration has no position. |
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