It's really important not to let Pfizer emerge from this pandemic with a P.R. win. Despite puff pieces like this 60 Minutes clip, Pfizer is the definition of an evil pharmaceutical company profiteering off of a devastating pandemic.https://www.cbsnews.com/video/pfizer-head-of-vaccine-research-i-took-this-very-personally-nothing-else-mattered/#x …
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But here's the thing: Back in the 80s and 90s, Pfizer helped create the very WTO intellectual property rules it is now invoking to protect its profits and cut off vaccine supply. I wrote about that here.https://inthesetimes.com/article/pfizer-covid-vaccine-world-trade-oganization-intellectual-property-patent-access-medicines …
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Pfizer's absolutely mercenary approach to this pandemic, on the domestic and global levels, should be studied and recorded and remembered. We have shaped an entire intellectual property global regime, and US response, around the "needs" and demands of companies like this.
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