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peter.suber's bookmarks 2024-01-25

Summary:

"But the story of the Moderna vaccine isn't one of a company taking huge gambles with shareholder dollars. It's the story of the US government giving billions and billions of dollars to a private firm, which will now charge the US government – and the American people – a 4,460% markup on the resulting medicine...."

Link:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/

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Tags:

oa.pharma oa.patents oa.medicine oa.humanitarian oa.profits oa.taxpayers oa.usa

Date tagged:

01/25/2024, 11:57

Date published:

01/25/2024, 06:57