Posted on 04/30/2021 3:58:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A high-stakes fight over drug companies’ response to the coronavirus pandemic has split the Biden administration, with activists and progressives urging the White House to back an international petition to waive the companies’ patents — and some senior officials privately signaling they’re open to the idea.
The debate has reignited decades-old tensions in global health, pitting such influential figures as Pope Francis, who backs the patent-waiver proposal, against philanthropist Bill Gates, who’s opposed.
The proposal was discussed last week by Anthony S. Fauci, a top coronavirus adviser to President Biden, and Katherine Tai, the U.S. trade representative, who spoke about ways to help the developing world...
Fauci briefed Tai on the benefits of sharing technologies from companies that hold vaccine patents — a position that he supports, arguing that it would allow developing countries to rapidly produce their own vaccines, said people with knowledge of White House deliberations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the conversations’ sensitivity.
The patent fight centers on a proposal in front of the World Trade Organization, which would allow the global trade body’s 164 member nations to stop enforcing a group of coronavirus-related patents for the duration of the pandemic.
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Ah go vaccinate yourself
Oh. The Govt can just waive patents at whim now. Good to know.
Is there anything they suggest that isn’t stupid beyond belief?
Apparently not.
I’ll have what Gates and Fauci had.
If you waive the patents then who in the third world is going to manufacture the vaccine? How long will it take for them the get the infrastructure in place? Why not let the patent holders manufacture it and then subsidize the vaccine for poorer countries?
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The world would be a better place if a certain malevolent dwarf “health expert” would suddenly disappear.
Oh, now Biden has stolen the “World Presidential Election” I see. I guess I missed that campaign.
The world can just bend over for Joe and the Dems and get the shot right where the Dems get excited the most.
Sounds like a commercial: “I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony.” Not possible, fools errands on both counts—but then again, Jackass Joe is a supreme fool.
score...
I see what you did there!
Yep. mRNA vaccines are not realistic, the one from Russia works the best for 3rd world.
I am just dreading the phone call where she's rushed into the hospital.
Gee, Biden has a Trade Representative who is fluent in Mandarin. She’s a perfect fit for an assignment to give up our National intellectual property.
IMHO, we should NEVER do that.
“how to vaccinate the world”
One giant hypodermic needle right in the equator should do it. Multiple injections may be needed.
The odds are easy more in favor of her getting into a car accident. Do you worry when she gets into a car? I suspect you don’t.
Quit buying into misleading information posted on this and other boards.
What we’re seeing is internecine warfare between different deep state groups.
Anyone who thinks that the deep state is some kind of monolithic group all working together for the same goal is stupid.
This is gang warfare in a fight over pieces of the pie. Fighting over money is the deep state’s vulnerability, which can be exploited to destroy the criminal fascist syndicate occupying Washington.
never trust a government that opens its border, invites, and then distributes thousands of disease carrying invaders across its country during a “global pandemic”...
Dozens of people have died from the jab.
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