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Vaccine Apartheid: Big Pharma Is Keeping COVID Alive

On vaccine apartheid and how big PHARMA and rich imperialist governments are prolonging this pandemic by hoarding vaccines and refusing to waive patent rights so poor countries can produce them

With the US and the West having secured multiple times over the vaccines needed for their populations, but some countries without any vaccine at all, we are living in vaccine apartheid. Big Pharma refuses to give over its formulas, despite public funding, allowing untold numbers of people to die from COVID and variants to mutate — and possibly begin to resist vaccines.

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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