TRADE WATCH: Big Pharma Profits From Loophole That Creates Never Ending Covid Mutations

Julianna welcomes back Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, to discuss how even after governments provided billions to pharma corporations to create COVID-19 vaccines... because of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, where and how much vaccine is produced around the world is determined solely by the pharmaceutical firms. These firms clearly have a financial stake in keeping Coronavirus going, regardless of the pain and human misery the disease and the lockdowns have caused. Today, 100 nations led by India and South Africa are proposing a temporary, emergency waiver of these WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) rules, so governments and manufacturers worldwide can ramp up production of the vaccines and treatments necessary to end the pandemic.
In addition to being the Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, Lori is also a 25-year veteran of congressional trade battles starting with the 1990s fight over NAFTA, and was named to the “Politico’s 50” list of thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics in 2016 for her leadership in the Trans-Pacific Partnership debate.
For info on Lori go to: https://www.citizen.org/about/person/lori-wallach/ and follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/WallachLori
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