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US Declares a Vaccine War on the World

May 29, 2020 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Big Pharma, Capitalism, Public Health, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade Wars

by Prabir Purkayastha, published on Asia Times, May 27, 2020 Donald Trump launched a new vaccine war this month, but not against the virus. It was against the world. The United States and the UK were the only two holdouts in the World Health Assembly from the declaration that vaccines and medicines for Covid-19 should be available as public goods, and not under exclusive patent[…]