Telling the story of the search for the #COVID-19 vaccines puts #capitalism under the microscope. It is a story that helps us to zoom in on why the pharmaceutical industry is set for one of the biggest profit windfalls in its #history. And it magnifies our view of the commanding role of the capitalist #state in a process that the likes of #BorisJohnson present as driven by corporate ingenuity and naked competition – but in reality is driven by our wealth and by scientific #knowledge that is part of the #commons.
As we get to the end of the story, we find out that the search for the #vaccine is not really a search for a cure at all, but a search to avoid dealing with the causes of the #virus.

https://corporatewatch.org/vaccinating-capitalism-corporate-pharma-raids-the-commons-and-leaves-the-root-causes-untreated/ #corona #mers #pfizer #who #zika #ebola #bigpharma #capitalism #hedgefonds #crisis