Posted on 03/10/2017 8:32:26 PM PST by Theoria
Donald J. Trump told the American people during his presidential campaign, “This country is being drained of its jobs and its money because we have stupid people making bad deals.” He promised to make better deals, ones in which we would win so much we “may even get tired of winning.”
Now his administration, through the Army, is on the brink of making a bad deal, giving a French pharmaceutical company, Sanofi, the exclusive license to patents and thus a monopoly to sell a vaccine against the Zika virus. If Mr. Trump allows this deal, Sanofi will be able to charge whatever astronomical price it wants for its vaccine. Millions of people in the United States and around the world will not be able to afford it even though American taxpayers have already spent more than $1 billion on Zika research and prevention efforts, including millions to develop this vaccine.
The Department of Health and Human Services gave Sanofi $43 million to develop the Zika vaccine with the United States Army. And the company is expected to receive at least $130 million more in federal funding.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Why did you edit the title of the article?
Is the title on my screen, is it something different on yours?
“Bernie Sanders: Trump Should Avoid a Bad Zika Deal”
Bernie fan?
No, you? That is the title on my pad, maybe the nyt is different on mobile.
Blame it on the pad.
Typical.
What can I say, it’s that time of the month.
Not sure you’re the one on the rag.
To get back to the point of the article....this seems like a bad deal. I wonder if President Trump even knew about it.
Gives me an idea, we should use Bernie Sanders as a test subject for potentially dangerous medical treatments.
Just because the NYSlimes says it’s so?
Why a vaccine- why not kill the bug at the source - DDT the mosquitos seems would be more effective
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