04-22-2021, 07:07 AM
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Campaign to waive Covid jab patent highlights $26bn shareholder payouts
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The demand for vaccines, at a time when the global economy is at a standstill, is responsible for a new wave of billionaires, it says. Uğur Şahin, the founder of BioNTech, which partnered with Pfizer to produce the vaccine he and his wife invented, now has shares worth $5.9bn. Stéphane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, which produced a vaccine with similar mRNA technology, is worth $5.2bn.
“This is a public health emergency, not a private profit opportunity,” said Anna Marriott, a health policy adviser at Oxfam, which is part of the alliance. “We should not be letting corporations decide who lives and who dies while boosting their profits.
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Basically we're gonna be in this **** for the foreseeable future because some people need to make as much money as possible, fully supported by the same governments who are suffering trillions of dollars of damage to their economies and whose citizens are standing by, watching helplessly. Way to go world.
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