Pharma CEOs and IFPMA comment on WHO proposal for COVID 19 technology pool. - YouTube

"At a May 28 press briefing organized by the international Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA), Pharma CEOs and the IFPMA DG comment on WHO proposal for global pool for rights in technologies for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Pascale Soriot, the CEO of AstaZeneca, a company receiving a reported $1.2 billion in funding from the US agency BARDA, claims he was "not aware" of the WHO proposal. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is the most negative, calling the proposal, dangerous. At 2:30 on this clip, Thomas Cueni of IFPMA claims that a focus on vaccine patents is misplaced since know-how is the larger issue, and he claims that there has never been a compulsory license on a vaccine patent.

There have been, of course, many disputes over patent rights for vaccines, and know-how, data and even access to cell lines, is actually part of the Costa Rica/WHO proposal for a COVID-19 technology pool, which, Thomas Cueni, a former journalist, certainly understands. The full IFPMA briefing is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wMMwDshed0 ..."