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The Monkeypox Vaccine Monopoly

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It makes intuitive sense for companies that develop a technology to hold its intellectual property rights. But in the case of vaccines and medical treatments, IP laws slow down manufacturing and distribution and give private companies the power to make huge decisions that affect public health globally.


Guest: Zain Rizvi, researcher for advocacy group Public Citizen, specializing in pharmaceutical innovation and access to medicine.


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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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0:09.3

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0:32.6

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0:49.4

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0:54.7

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1:05.4

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time,

1:13.9

hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a

1:17.6

nice sweaty armpit because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamstered

1:21.9

teeth and you get to the top and you're like, oh, and then you can see the breath,

1:26.0

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

1:29.1

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

1:40.0

It's hard not to feel a sense of dread about monkeypox. The US has declared a public health

1:45.3

emergency to deal with outbreaks. The World Health Organization had already said it was a global

1:50.0

emergency, but reality check. This is not March 2020. Monkeypox is generally not as deadly as

1:57.5

COVID, though the pain can be debilitating. And this is not a new disease. There is a vaccine.

2:03.4

It was originally developed for smallpox, but it works. The bad news, it's hard to get.

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