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Richard Epstein dissects the recent proposal to remove patent protection for COVID vaccines as a way to make them more affordable for the developing world — and explains why the patent system is one of the most underappreciated sources of American dynamism.
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Thanks for more background on this subject. I do have to agree on @henryracette on this one. Big Pharma kept the vaccine situation under wraps until after the election in order to make sure Trump did not get re-elected. Now they reap the consequences of that decision with Democrats/progressives/liberals/media (but I repeat and repeat and repeat myself) making them give up their patents. Didn’t Pfizer, et al, think that would happen? Of course, as usual, we the people will be the ones who suffer in the long term when our pharma companies cannot/will not produce a vaccine when we need it.
The Pfizer or Moderna vaccine was ready for testing on Jan 14
Do you mean of 2020? Before Trump had even created the call for National Emergency Status of the Epidemic, as he did on March 13th 2021.