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Michael Downey 🧢

💉💰 makers took BILLIONS of dollars in public funding. So why are they keeping vaccines from lower-income countries?

🗣️ Join in calling on and others to and help end the .

:boostsOK: if you agree.

@com @downey I thought one of the vaccine makers already did open source their recipe. Didn’t Moderna do that?

@bojkotiMalbona @downey

Merck seems to have donated royalty-free licensing of molnupiravir, an antiviral used to treat COVID-19 patients to the UN Medicines Patent Pool. Pfizer did the same shortly after with another antiviral, paxlovid. Well done them!

Can’t find any of the vaccine recipes with the same kind of deal.

@downey @bojkotiMalbona

It’s just a crazy waste of resources - these people could be researching new treatments instead of being forced to reverse engineer the Moderna vaccine!