Simply: he is lying!
The global patent struggle for COVID-19 vaccines is the latest battle in the irresponsible dispute between property rights and human rights. It comes as no surprise to us that Bill Gates, the billionaire monopoly, has stood on the side of the pharmaceutical companies that he owns or shares ownership of many of them.
Gates, the one who owes most of his fortune to monopoly intellectual property laws, has been more than a mere negative spectator in the epidemic; He persuaded - among many other bad things - the University of Oxford to abandon its original promise of an unpatented vaccine and partner with AstraZeneca for profit. The billionaire has amassed his wealth and power to ensure that the interests of for-profit pharmaceutical companies prevail.
During an appearance last week on the British news network Sky-News, and in response to a question from the anchor whether it would be beneficial to change patent restrictions, Gates replied: “There are very few vaccine factories in the world, and people are taking the safety of vaccines seriously. That is why we cannot take something that was not previously transported, such as a Johnson & Johnson recipe, to a factory in India. It is the grants we give, and our experience that makes these things possible. What impedes matters in this case is not intellectual property, but rather the lack of suitable vaccine factories that produce, with the approval of the legislative authorities, magically safe vaccines.
But Gates said it was simply a lie.
As explained in the recent report of Stephan Boranyi in detail, there are many factories around the world that have the ability to immediately produce the vaccine if they are granted the necessary license. One example cited by Boranyi was a relatively small plant in Canada, capable of producing twenty million doses for humans in the Global South, but which Astra-Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson refused to grant the license.
As John Fulton, deputy director of the Canadian company, said: “If they had let us start last year, we would have shipped millions of doses now… It should have been seen as a war effort in which we all participate. But they did not see the matter in this regard ». Fulton is right, and the Ontario-based company, Biolis, has the capacity, competence, and desire to produce vaccines if allowed to do so.
Jaafar Abdul Karim Al-Khabouri
موضوع: بقلم جعفر عبد الكريم الخابوري 
السبت مايو 08, 2021 3:12 am