WATCH: As Covid ravages India and Brazil, why doesn’t the U.S. drop its vaccine patents to save lives abroad? @mehdirhasan moderates a hot debate between former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu and Public Citizen's @WallachLori:

Apr 22, 2021 · 12:01 AM UTC

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Doesn’t matter anymore. Indias govt made a statement that some people are using more oxygen. Ppl can’t buy oxygen cylinders. Bodies are being cremated on roads. The government in the meantime are doing election rallies. Its a doomed nation headed by a clown.
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Trump admin policies?! It was supported by all of EU then why single out Trump admin. Looks like a scare tactics by @WallachLori to link this policy to Trump admin to scare Biden Admin.
Again i keep saying this, Moderna promised they will not enforce any of their IP during Pandemic and i havent seen a single company in Global South take up on that offer. No one seems to answer why that is?but keep calling for waiving IP for all vaccines. fiercepharma.com/pharma/lead…
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If the U.S. wants to repair its standing in the world & lead by example, dropping the patents & releasing the vaccines to poorer countries would be a good place to start. No nation is an island entire of itself in a global pandemic, to borrow a phrase. We
When you’re digging...furiously. Just put the shovel down.
Great change of style @mehdirhasan. You are becoming a perfect anchor after being a face-face interviewer for long. No interruptions, realizing the difference between online and face-face. Getting the best value.
Andrei now works for a high profile law firm (who makes their money on patent cases) and he’s everywhere now arguing against the Trips waiver. He will carry a lot of the responsibility for those who will die from this virus. Pretty disgusting.
Andrei had some salient points but he entered this debate with some serious xenophobic biases. Starting with the fact that the MRNA vaccine is US technology statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-…