#waiver
as expected
massive #lobbying from the German pharma lobby to prevent the patent waiver on the #Covid vaccine in Germany
supported by all parties in #Germany from the old #Merkel government to the new one including the #Green-party #Grüne
one exception: gimme-chips-for-vaccines deal with Taiwan
no free vaccines despite public financing by the state due to the right of #intellectual-property - haha
anyone able to calculate the deaths worldwide by these reckless politics ?
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how #Pfizer #Biontech prevented the #waiver
https://www.heise.de/news/Impfstoffe-Wie-Biontech-Co-die-Regierung-von-einer-Patentfreigabe-abbrachten-7253065.html
a bit more in detail here
how the #pharma-lobby got the German government into line
https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/recherchen/lobbyismus/impfpatente-wie-die-pharmalobby-die-bundesregierung-auf-linie-brachte