'It's nothing short of pandemic profiteering for Pfizer to make a killing while its vaccines have been withheld from so many.'
coronavirus vaccine in 2022 as the U.S. pharmaceutical giant refuses to share its technology with other nations, leaving billions of people around the world without access to lifesaving shots as the pandemic continues to rage."Big Pharma has made more than enough money from this crisis," said the U.K.-based advocacy group Global Justice Now."It's time to suspend patents and break vaccine monopolies.
"It's nothing short of pandemic profiteering for Pfizer to make a killing while its vaccines have been withheld from so many," Tim Bierley, pharma campaigner at Global Justice Now, said in a statement."Pfizer is now richer than most countries; it has made more than enough money from this crisis."published in July, The People's Vaccine Alliance noted that"Pfizer/BioNTech are charging their lowest reported price of $6.
"One dose of the vaccine costs the same as Uganda spends per citizen on health in a whole year," the coalition observed.of the 1.3 billion people on the African continent have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. "The development of mRNA vaccines should have revolutionized the global Covid response,” Global Justice Nowon Tuesday."But we've let Pfizer withhold this essential medical innovation from much of the world, all while ripping off public health systems with an eye-watering mark-up."
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