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Pharma-Backed Democrats Decline To Support COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver
A new letter to President Biden calling for a temporary patent waiver doesn t have the signatures of Congress s biggest recipients of pharmaceutical industry money.
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House Energy and Commerce Committee chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), left, and House Ways and Means Committee chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) are among Congress s biggest recipients of campaign cash from the pharmaceutical companies they are tasked with overseeing.
All of the Democrats who are among Congress’s top recipients of pharmaceutical industry cash have yet to endorse waiving the rules on intellectual property rights for the COVID-19 vaccines that many experts say stand in the way of needed production.
Democrats Funded by Big Pharma Refuse to Back COVID Vaccine Patent Waiver
Sen. Chris Coons invoked the January 6 Capitol breach to justify his opposition to temporarily suspending restrictive intellectual property protections.
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The leading Democratic recipients of pharmaceutical industry cash in Congress are refusing to endorse calls for a temporary suspension of patents for coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics, an indication of Big Pharma’s influence as it lobbies aggressively in Washington and elsewhere to maintain monopoly control over production.
HuffPost’s Daniel Marans reported late Monday that 110 House Democrats have signed on to a letter led by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) calling on President Joe Biden to support India and South Africa’s proposed vaccine patent waiver at the World Trade Organization (WTO), which is set to consider the idea again this week. The letter is set to be unveiled on Tuesday.
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