[e-drug] The Guardian: We'll find a treatment for COVID-19 but drug companies will decide who gets it

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E-DRUG: The Guardian: We'll find a treatment for COVID-19 but drug companies will decide who gets it
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Dear e-drug readers,

I hope you are well and safe.

See here the link to an article Achal Prabhala and I published yesterday in The Guardian.

    ..............................' Although there is every indication that treatments for coronavirus may soon emerge, the mere fact of their existence is no guarantee that people will be able to access them. In fact, Covid-19 is more likely to end in the same way that every pandemic ends: treatments and vaccines will be buried in a thicket of patents – and pharmaceutical companies will ultimately make the decisions about who lives and who dies................................... '

Please feel free to share with others and through your social networks:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/15/coronavirus-treatment-drug-companies

Kind regards,

Ellen

Ellen 't Hoen LLM, PhD | Medicines Law & Policy
www.medicineslawandpolicy.org
E-mail: ellenthoen@medicineslawandpolicy.net