'The pharmaceutical industry will always lobby to maximize their own profits, regardless of the impact on public health, but G7 leaders must resist.'
by rich countries at the behest of the pharmaceutical industry, which furiously opposed any changes that threatened their monopoly control over the lifesaving shots."We cannot double-down on implementation of intellectual property rules that make pandemics longer, costlier, and deadlier."
Dr. Craig Spencer, associate professor of the practice at Brown University School of Public Health and one of the new letter's signatories, said in a statement Thursday that"we believe that the right to health is more important than windfall profits, particularly in a health crisis." While the scientists said they were encouraged by elements of the WHO's draft pandemic treaty, noting that it includes"provisions to increase the transfer of medical technology to developing countries and to support the suspension of intellectual property rules," they expressed concern that those proposals could suffer the same fate as earlier efforts to waive patent rules.
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