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Pfizer has won plaudits for its Covid vaccine delivery programme, but the US multinational faces growing scrutiny over the scale of its profits and the proportion of doses it has delivered to low-income countries, The Guardian reported.While ...
The emergence of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 and the world’s desperate and likely futile attempts to keep it at bay are reminders of what scientists have warned for months: The coronavirus will thrive as long as vast parts of the world lack vaccines. The hoarding of limited COVID-19 shots by rich countries — creating virtual vaccine deserts in many poorer ones — does not just mean risk for the parts of the world seeing shortages; it threatens the entire globe. That is because the more the disease spreads among unvaccinated populations, the more possibilities it has to mutate and po...
Public health experts are pessimistic of the outcome
LONDON — The emergence of the new omicron variant and the world’s desperate and likely futile attempts to keep it at bay are reminders of what scientists have warned for months: The coronavirus will thrive as long as vast parts of the world lack vaccines.
According to data from the People’s Vaccine Alliance Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna make $65k (£48.7k) a minute in combined profits from their vaccines, based on profits reported in the three companies’ latest reports. The group has called for patents to be lifted on vaccines arguing they should be seen as a global public good. Speaking […]