3700 crores spent on lobbying of leaders, 2 vaccine companies have been playing with their lives
Corona is standing at our door again. The new variant Omicron is spreading 5 times faster than before. Experts are saying that the third wave is coming in January, but hi re hungry to earn money.
Corona is standing at our door again. The new variant Omicron is spreading 5 times faster than before. Experts are saying that the third wave is coming in January, but hi re hungry to earn money. When you were stumbling hospital-hospital, bed-bed, medicine and medicine to save loved ones; Then some business tycoons were spending billions of rupees on the leaders, so that the leaders would let them do business on medicine and corona vaccine.
Let us take you through this story layer by layer. Explains how the right to make vaccines in the name of intellectual property was restricted to a few companies. Later, those companies got the contract to make the vaccine, which have been playing with the lives of the people earlier and have paid a fine of billions of rupees. These vaccine companies are Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson. Apart from these, 3 pharma companies are also infamous for similar dishonesty.
This is from 24 February 2021. Do you remember this month? Corona was spreading twice day and night at quadruple speed. The world was brawling for the vaccine. India and South Africa went to the World Trade Organization, ie WTO. By proposing that there would have been a slight relaxation in the rules regarding intellectual property of the medical world, then there would have been no delay in making the vaccine.
According to a report published in Down to Earth, to stop this proposal, the American pharma companies' organization 'The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing of America' spent $ 50 million in just a few days, i.e. about 3 thousand 700 crores on more than the leaders. and spent in lobbying. Not only this, due to strong lobbying of pharmaceutical companies, this proposal of India could not be implemented.
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