Will Biden End The COVID Pandemic Or Protect Big Pharma?

[Donkees]

Apr 14, 2021

One of the most pivotal decisions of Joe Biden's presidency is approaching. On May 5, he must choose between protecting the profits of Big Pharma, or ending the pandemic worldwide by allowing lower-income nations to manufacture COVID vaccines.

[katmondoo]

1. What are you talking about? Is he suppose to do a miracle a day to prove his worth?

[MontanaMama]

2. Seriously?

Joe Biden has done more in his first 3 months of his presidency than I ever thought possible. Can we hold off on bashing him for a minute, please?

[niyad]

4. Okay, I just watched the video. The title is a bit misleading, as there is nothing in the video tha

says that President Biden will side with big pharma.

[emulatorloo]

5. DU is a Malarkey-free Zone.

Your source should find something better to do than make foolish videos like this.

[brush]

6. Joe Biden's got 99 problems in his own country...

now he's supposed to solve the world's too?

Can we focus on cleaning up the mess trump left us here first please?

[Warpy]

7. A certain amount of infrastructure is required to manufacture vaccines

Countries like China, Russia and India have such facilities and are capable of large scale manufacture and all have a history of supplying vaccines and life saving drugs to the developing world, the same drugs that the west restricts by patents and profit margins.

This is just business as usual. There's not much Biden can or should do about it in the short term.

[niyad]

8. TRIPS- trade-related aspects of intellectual property. Interesting discussion, talking about how the

waiver during the AIDS epidemic helped reduce the cost, and increase the availability, of the drugs needed.0

[George II]

9. Why are we bashing President Biden here?