Posted on 05/30/2021 9:11:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Joe Biden is moving to surrender to China U.S. patent and trade secret protections on America's COVID-19 vaccines. Two of those vaccines, made by American-based Pfizer and Moderna, employ revolutionary mRNA technology.
Specifically, the Biden administration has agreed to support a request by India and South Africa for waivers that would permit members of the World Trade Organization to not enforce laws protecting patents and trade secrets covered under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPs).
"This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures," declared U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai in a May 5 statement. "The Administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines."
Yes, extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary measures, but not extraordinarily ineffective and counterproductive ones. The proposed TRIPs waiver, as it is called, is both.
Proponents of the waiver, who sometimes speak of "vaccine apartheid," argue that intellectual property rules prevent the making of desperately needed vaccines.
Such arguments appear correct on their face but in fact are not. As Albert Bourla, Pfizer CEO, explained on May 7 in a LinkedIn post, the "bottleneck" for more vaccines is the "scarcity of highly specialized raw materials needed to produce our vaccine."
A TRIPs waiver will not increase the supply of those materials — Pfizer's vaccine requires 280 materials or components from 19 countries — but it will increase the number of companies that enter the vaccine business. Therefore, the waiver will, as Bourla noted, "unleash a scramble for the critical inputs we require in order to make a safe and effective vaccine."
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At the moment, China has failed miserably when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines. Chinese enterprises have developed five such jabs, but, despite months of head start on the rest of the world, they are barely effective. None of China’s vaccines has been proven safe. Beijing has refused to hand over Phase III trial data.
China will be the primary beneficiary of any waiver. As Sean Lin points out, “China does not have any prior experience on industrial-scale production of mRNA vaccines” and a waiver, he says, will encourage more Chinese biotech and pharmaceutical companies to jump into the sector. After all, these enterprises will get years of research and development for free if Biden gets his way.
10% for The Big Guy!
ridiculous, there are bigger issues afoot and its ridiculous
Biden works for the Chinese Communist Party as he poses for America.
Wrong. His retromingent Highness’ first and worst move was being born. A corrupt, demented,senile, pedophile jackass is hard to beet.
This i agree with 100%.
Give the bastards our $hitty vaccine!!!
Let them murder their own population!
Good riddance!
Worst move yet?
Pshaw. What do people expect from this guy. Biden.
Biden and his team are off their rockers. If you want to control the pandemic, you shut down China, blockade all travel until they are infection-free and can prove it and have ceased and desisted all their biowarefare labs built over the past 13 months. You don’t give them the proprietary information of a working vaccine that they can bioengineer to defeat within weeks, while also tanking the stock, and world pension retirement funds sunk into publically-traded companies.
Seriously, are oranatangs advising Biden? because whoever is, is bat-hanging nuts
More proof that China owns Biden. They don’t even have to steal technology anymore. It is simply given to them because they now own the politicians.
Giving away vaccine technology is bad enough, but Pfizer and Moderna have spent a decade on their nanoparticle drug delivery systems, as well as purifying mRNA to suitable levels. These technologies go far beyond vaccines, with huge future applications in therapeutics for cancer and other diseases, as well as genomics. This giveaway will only make us more dependent on China for our pharmaceuticals. Just as Biden intends, no doubt.
Turn over documents from five years ago, and date them as current. They won’t show the current processes and claim that that’s the research you have now they have it.
Anyone trying to transfer mRNA technology should immediately be put to death. Way beyond nuclear type danger.
How about we endorse Ivermectin which crushes the ChiCom Virus and tell Big Pharma to screw off?
China gave biden and son millions.. don’t you think they expected gifts?.. or they could blackmail him. hes ripe
That should help Chinese bioweapons researchers to do even better in their next agent, to defeat therapies
This sounds fake. They designed the virus, along with others. The Chinese lead the way in killing their citizens. They released it on their own first... they do not want a cure because they don’t need it. Has anyone in their ruling class contracted it. How many of ours?
Exactly.
They will use the knowledge to develop a way to circumvent the technology.
Correct. They are also malevolent.
Give the the recipe for a binary weapon...we’re toast.
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