Submission + - Big Pharma choose profit over ending Pandemic
Oneflower writes: In "Big Pharma could supply the whole world with a COVID vaccine. They've chosen not to" pharmaceutical companies, their host countries' governments and charitable foundations come under fire for their refusal to make the vaccines available under patent-free conditions. This despite that the vaccines were developed with massive public funding: "The governments and health bodies (looking at you, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) that bankrolled these pharma companies with billions of dollars had a choice. They could have stipulated clearly and transparently in their contracts with these drug companies that all patents for COVID-19 are to be publicly owned and available to all. They could have — they just chose not to. "