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Biden sends shares in Pfizer and Moderna PLUMMETING after he backs waiving Covid vaccine patents to boost world supplies
M.L. Nestel
Updated: May 6 2021, 19:51 ET
M.L. Nestel
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SHARE prices for big pharma companies Pfizer and Moderna nosedived on Thursday after the Biden administration endorsed “the waiver” of Covid-19 vaccine patents.
The move would afford developing countries a lifeline to produce and inoculate populations with generic versions of the vaccines.
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President Joe Biden has backed a waiver to share pharmaceuticals' Covid-19 vaccine intellectual property information with developing countries to help inoculate populationsCredit: Getty
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai went public against objections by the major corporations, to nix the intellectual property of vaccines given the dire circumstances brought on by the widespread deadly disease.