The miserly profiteers are continuing to count on future earnings and are concerned about sharing their knowledge with poor countries who can't pay for the knowledge! These folks are real pieces of work. All of these legal bribes between these 3 pharmas influencing with $$ are obviously a factor, including BIO's quest for full control and keeping certain knowledge secret.
"Johnson & Johnson voluntarily disclosed that it
provided at least $500,000 last year to BIO and says that about one-third of its support to the organization goes to lobbying or direct political advocacy. Moderna also
voluntarily discloses its support of BIO. John Young, a Pfizer executive, sits on BIO’s board of directors."
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Congress approved over $10.5 billion for the production of vaccines, money that ultimately went to BIO members such as Moderna and Johnson & Johnson."
"And despite BIO’s commitment to “promote health equity,” McMurray-Heath has aggressively attacked the proposal for vaccine makers to share the manufacturing know-how and intellectual property secrets necessary for cheap, generic vaccines to be produced for low-income countries. The new BIO president has mocked the proposal from public health activists as among the “
empty gestures” that won’t solve the Covid pandemic and has been quoted widely on the industry-focused push to maintain World Trade Organization rules that restrict the open use of vaccine IP."
The trade group for Pfizer and Moderna made large dark-money donations during the 2020 election, a new filing reveals.
theintercept.com