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Rich States Would Rather Let Poor People Die Than Waive Coronavirus Vaccine Patents

Published in Novara Media

“Vaccine manufacturers are profiting handsomely. Pfizer projected it would make $15bn in 2021, charging $19 a dose at an 80% profit margin that makes it too expensive for most countries to afford. Moderna, whose quarterly revenue has risen from $8m to approximately $2bn in the last year, is charging the US government $25 a dose.

Groups like Oxfam, Global Justice Now, Amnesty International, ActionAid and the Peoples Vaccine Alliance have long been calling for this to change. While anti-vax protests have been consistently covered by the mainstream media, a host of street protests in support of free open-access vaccines have started to emerge across the world – while, of course, receiving precious little coverage.”

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