Profiting from the Pandemic: Will Pharmaceutical Giants Use Patents to Limit Access to COVID Drugs

[Stellar]

[jimfields33]

1. I'm sure they will

After a few years other companies will be able to try and duplicate it. We just need a vaccine at this point. Admin stuff can come later.

[panfluteman]

2. Then People Will Just Have to Rediscover the Great Therapeutic Value of Medicinal Herbs!

Big Pharma is just another capitalistic control game, and this pandemic is making that crystal clear.

[panfluteman]

3. Trump's Hydroxychloroquine Thing Was an Effort to Profit off the Pandemic

Using the capitalistic business model of Big Pharma. As much coverage as there was of the fact that the drug was not really that effective, and had lethal risks for those with heart rhythm abnormalities, almost no coverage was given to which of Trump's cronies was heavily invested in shares of the drug maker's stock. And Trump doesn't do anything without a profiteering or scamming angle to it. Sure, Trump was offering unreliable, risky and potentially lethal pseudo-medical advice; I get it. But follow the money, dummies!