<div dir="ltr"><div><span><h2 class="gmail-article-subhead"><span>Nations across the world are demanding the right to manufacture their own Covid-19 vaccines. Why is the U.S. saying no?</span></h2></span>
</div><div>"<span>Vaccine distribution is being spoken and written about as a
zero-sum game because of the conditions of artificial scarcity that our
government has created and is presently enforcing. If more Americans
actually knew the substance of the requests being made by other nations,
they’d have no reason to worry about losing any of “our” vaccine doses.
Instead, they would understand that the only thing at risk—and only
temporarily at that—are some potential future profits of Johnson &
Johnson, Pfizer, and the like. It’s hard to believe many of them would
side with our government’s position on the matter. The lack of interest
by the American media means we’ll never get to find out."</span>
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/161704/global-vaccine-shortage-intellectual-property">https://newrepublic.com/article/161704/global-vaccine-shortage-intellectual-property</a></div></div>