.@mehdirhasan has a personal stake in stemming the Covid pandemic in India as it ravages friends and family. “There's a moral reason for helping the Indias and Brazils of this world,” he adds, “but there's also self interest. We cannot defeat the coronavirus in isolation.” Watch:
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“We are right now in the worst days of the global pandemic,” says @ashishkjha. @RoKhanna adds that "over 100 countries around the world don’t have access to the vaccine.” The least vaccine makers can do, he says, “is license their vaccine recipe to the rest of the world.”
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Will President Biden demand that vaccine makers waive their intellectual property so more producers can get shots to countries that need it most? “They must,” @RoKhanna tells @mehdirhasan. “The argument is so simple. Pfizer will still get paid! Moderna will still get paid!”

Apr 26, 2021 · 11:38 PM UTC

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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @RoKhanna @mehdirhasan
Wouldn’t sending Pfizer or Moderna overseas to set up shop to make the vaccines negate the need to give up intellectual rights? I’m hearing 2 different stories lately.
Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @RoKhanna @mehdirhasan
India doesn't want Pfizer or Moderna. If they could have it there's no cold transport network to scale. They want access to raw materials, which were effectively held back from Defense Production Act, so they can make more of their own. That's changing now as Biden announced.