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Merck Sells Federally Financed Covid Pill to U.S. for 40 Times What It Costs to Make
The Covid-19 treatment molnupiravir was developed using funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. ...[Read more]
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Big Pharma Greed ‘Literally Killing Americans,’ Sanders Says Outside Drug Lobby HQ
"How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker, before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?" ...[Read more]
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Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine: rare blood clot syndrome has high mortality rate
Researchers found that clots occurring after first dose of Oxford jab affected otherwise young and healthy people ...[Read more]
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Lisa Shaw death: BBC presenter had blood clots after AstraZeneca jab, family says
The award-winning BBC radio presenter Lisa Shaw died in hospital after suffering blood clots following her AstraZeneca vaccination, her family has said. The 44-year-old, who was a well-known broadcaster in the north-east of England and had worked for BBC ...[Read more]
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Chomsky: Big Pharma Cares More About Profiting From COVID Than Human Survival
The election of Joe Biden has not demolished the Republican Party, or that party’s ongoing attempts to block policies that might give humanity a chance at survival. Moreover, the advent of the Biden administration has not negated some of the most persis ...[Read more]
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For Billion-Dollar COVID Vaccines, Basic Government-Funded Science Laid the Groundwork
The vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna, which are likely to be the first to win FDA approval, in particular rely heavily on two fundamental discoveries that emerged from federally funded research: the viral protein designed by Graham and his colleagues, ...[Read more]
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Democrats, Sanders Demand Biden Release Secret Covid Vaccine Contracts Inked Under Trump
Dozens of congressional Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday urged top Biden officials to release unredacted copies of multi-billion-dollar coronavirus vaccine contracts that the Trump administration negotiated in secret with major pharmaceutical c ...[Read more]
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Big Pharma’s ‘Appalling’ $26 Billion in Shareholder Payouts Could Fund Vaccines for All of Africa: Report
Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca—three of the world's top coronavirus vaccine manufacturers—have paid out a combined $26 billion in dividends and stock buybacks to their shareholders over the past year, a sum that could fully fund the cost o ...[Read more]
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Life expectancy in US down for second year in a row as opioid crisis deepens
Life expectancy in the US has declined for the second year in a row as the opioid crisis continues to ravage the nation. It is the first time in half a century that there have been two consecutive years of declining life expectancy. Drug overdoses killed ...[Read more]
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