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28 August 2020

Great work Oxford!

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They pledged to donate rights to their COVID vaccine, then sold them to pharma

Jay Hancock writing for DenverPost:

A few weeks later, Oxford–urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—reversed course. It signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices—with the less-publicized potential for Oxford to eventually make millions from the deal and win plenty of prestige.

aah… oh well

tags: news - covid19