Re: 'Government Money That's Gone Into Vaccine Development Is Being Privatized by a Handful of Companies' (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Did you share this with Tamara?

Anyway, I'm starting to wonder why money wasn't also put into the NIH to
develop the vaccine independently, free of patents?  Seems like that would
have been the way to go.  It's possible that people weren't thinking
ahead, but I highly suspect that it was ideological.

It seems like the right thing to do would be for the U.S. government to
buy vaccines from Cuba and distribute those to countries like India, since
those are the only ones free of the burden of patents.