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Pharmaceutical Industry

SOURCE: Mother Jones
1/24/2023

How Private Equity Cashed in on Medical Abortion

The American effort to bring the French RU-486 medication to the domestic market made medical abortion much more widely accessible. But, in true American fashion, the involvement of private investors looking for profit also made it much more expensive—even more so after Dobbs.

12/12/2021

With COVID, None of Us are Safe Until All of Us are Safe

by Robert Brent Toplin

Deference to the patent claims of pharmaceutical companies are slowing the urgently needed distribution of COVID vaccines to poorer nations. Residents of rich nations will pay a price as new, potentially dangerous variants like Omicron spread.

SOURCE: Washington Post
3/15/2020

German Officials to Discuss Reported U.S. Attempt to Buy Exclusive Rights to Coronavirus Vaccine

Trump often has private conversations of which his staff is not aware, and therefore the official could not definitively rule out that any such discussion had occurred.