Opinion: Global health should not be determined by pharma investors and shareholders

Decision-making about the availability of essential health technologies for global health cannot be left to the whims of casino capitalism in which speculative investors bet on intangible assets for financing…

What could go wrong when pharmaceutical company shareholders and investors shape the public health response to Covid-19?

Everything, of course, including perpetuating the pandemic with immense avoidable suffering and death. And that’s exactly what happened last week at the annual shareholder meetings of Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson.

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