RE: Waiving IP By Derek Lowe8 May 2021 21:30
I have read some great articles on this subject the last few days and that one also cites the manufacturing capabilities we have, which means nothing whatever Bidens plans might be or reason to go so public on the issue. I think to a certain extent he is voicing Trumps biggest vote winner which was America for Americans and is looking to other countries to maximise their capabilities in adding to the amount of vaccines they can export.
However, regardless of the volume that can be freed up, history tells us that distributing it to the people who need it the most is a real problem, do the people of countries that receive enormous amounts of aid ever truly benefit from it. That to me is a real issue and I just look at how quickly the American market came back from the original news, once again leaving our market and Europes seriously lagging behind.
I can"t imagine anybody not wanting to see a solution to this problem, I just cannot see how we can beat this COVID crisis without every country being vaccinised until herd immunity exists everywhere, but I just can"t see tht happening in the short to mid term.
Street politics aside I am very pleased to see a vote of thanks to the Tory Government for their successes in handling this, and didn"t Strarmer get hammered for what I would call a pitiful response, even trying to cause mistrust in a Government we really neede to trust to see the results we have seen of today. Just IMHO.