A gift and blessing : New Milford doctor and businessman helps town leaders combat COVID-19
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NEW MILFORD While Dr. Jeremy Levin never imagined he’d be sitting on Zoom dispensing critical medical advice to a Connecticut town council, he has always expected a pandemic.
For months now, Levin, an influential figure in the biopharmaceutical industry, has been a font of fact and fortitude for his town, offering guidance to local leaders from his farm in New Milford.
Yet Levin, originally from South Africa, has known something like this was coming since his years as a young physician in Switzerland.
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SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – As COVID-19 cases surge in parts of the world such as India, many have called on President Biden to waive COVID-19 vaccine patents, effectively sharing the secret sauce.
Advocates for the move have said that the waive would allow other countries to produce them on their own and vaccinate more people, dissenters are saying the waive comes with a variety of unintended consequences.
Dr. Jeremy Levin, Chairman of BIO the global Biotechnology Innovation Organization, joined KUSI’s Logan Byrnes to discuss the patent waiver.
“Patents are an essential part of innovation,” Dr. Jeremy Levin said.
Dr. Jeremy Levin gave his own alternative solution which was to take down the restrictions on export, increase the production in this country, and sell it at a price that people abroad can afford, and ensure that those countries have the ability to get enough shots into arms.
Top Republican Raises Prospect of Congress Blocking COVID Vaccine Patent Waivers
Sen. Mike Crapo listens as U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on May 12, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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Republicans fumed at President Joe Biden’s top trade negotiator on Wednesday for proposing waivers for patent protections on COVID-19 vaccines a move that would make it easier for poorer countries to inoculate their citizens and stem the tide of the global pandemic.
One conservative lawmaker after the next lambasted U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai during a hearing held by the Senate Finance Committee. The top Republican on the panel, Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, claimed that Congress has the authority to stop Tai from seeking patent protection waivers before the World Trade Organization (WTO), an assertion that Tai refuted.
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The second decade of the 21st century was bookended by two great crises the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the colossal impact these events have had on our daily lives, they resulted in
massive increases in government power and spending. During the Great Recession, Rahm Emmanuel, Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama, infamously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”REF This adage was applied in the Great Recession and it certainly has been applied in the COVID-19 pandemic.REF
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