POSTSCRIPT TO "HOW TO CANCEL A NONPROFIT VACCINE THAT WORKS."

 

(Shannon Stapleton / Reuters)

This is a postscript to an article posted here on Thursday, March 18, 2021.

"But on Thursday, Europe's drug regulator declared the vaccine safe.  AstraZeneca has also said that a review of 17 million people who received the vaccine found they were less likely than others to developing dangerous clots."  Natalie Kitroeff, Maria Abi-Habib, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Jim Tankersley, U.S. to Ship Doses South of Border in Strategic Step, NEW YORK TIMES, Friday, March 19, 2021, at A1.

          "This is a safe and effective vaccine."  Emer Cooke, head of Europe's drug regulator, quoted by Marc Santora and Monika Pronczuk, Drug Regulator Assures Europe Vaccine is Safe, NEW YORK TIMES, also published on Friday, March 19, 2021, at A1.

          "Trust in the AstraZeneca vaccine is essential to fighting the pandemic worldwide."  Santora and Pronczuk, Drug Regulator Assures Europe Vaccine is Safe, supra.

          In the meantime, the for-profit vaccine pharma companies competing with nonprofit AstraZeneca still refuse to waive licensing royalties from poor people and countries who cannot afford to pay them.

See Christopher Rowland, Emily Rauhala, and Miriam Berger, Drug Companies Defend Vaccine Monopolies in Face of Global Outcry, WASHINGTON POST online Saturday, March 20, 2021. 

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