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Interesting but I'm not convinced, this is just blinding us with science. Nothing is ever simple in its execution, duh.This is interesting. @Lili Marlene was it you that mentioned that this could potentially all be expedited by waiving IP and allowing generic production of vaccines? Apologies if it wasn't you. Regardless, seems it wouldn't be so straightforward.
If he wants to tell us that India is a backwards nation with stupid people who aren't capable of manufacturing complex things like us clever westerners he should just go out and say that (we had to destroy fifteen million doses because we made mistakes and we're white!) . They want to make their own vaccines for themselves and we should let them, otherwise all those deaths are on us. If we don't trust the dirty foreigners to make them correctly for us then we don't have to import the generic versions.
By way of comparison, they said the very same thing about AIDS/HIV drugs,that it would be impossible to make these for cheap, and they kept on saying it right up until it was proven possible. It went from more than 10 thousand dollars per person per year to a dollar a day and it was fought every step of the way by the drugs companies. Bit of history on it here:
Big Pharmaâs worst nightmare | Sarah Boseley
Jamie Love has spent years battling global drug companies, unshakable in his belief that even the world’s poorest people should have access to life-saving medicines. Is it time that our own government listened to him? | Sarah Boseley
www.theguardian.com
and some contemporary reporting:
Indian Company Offers to Supply AIDS Drugs at Low Cost in Africa (Published 2001)
Cipla Ltd of Bombay, major manufacturer of generic drugs, offers to supply triple-therapy AIDS 'cocktails' for $350 a year per patient to doctors' group working in Africa; company makes offer to Doctors Without Borders, which sets up small pilot programs in Africa and would distribute Cipla...
www.nytimes.com
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