How Big Pharma is Extending the Pandemic

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A video about COVID-19 vaccines, variants and Big Pharma profiteering.

*Chapters*

0:00 Why Isn't the Pandemic Over Yet?
12:55 1. Why Vaccines Aren't Enough
20:10 2. How (Not) To Vaccinate the World
35:14 Curiosity Stream & Nebula
37:13 3. How Rich Countries Stole the World's Vaccines
54:57 4. How Patents Enable Big Pharma Profiteering
01:09:23 5. The Fight for a People's Vaccine
01:16:40 6. Life After COVID?

*Bibliography*

You can find an annotated bibliography for this video on my website, here: https://tomnicholas.com/2022/03/how-big-pharma-is-extending-the-pandemic

*Some Copy about the Video for the YouTube Algorithm*

It’s now been more than two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and over one year since the announcement of the Pfizer vaccine (the first COVID-19 vaccine, developed in collaboration with the German company BioNTech). Given all that we know about the disease, how to treat it and how to prevent it, you’d have thought we’d be much closer to defeating it, right?

But… no. COVID-19 variants have continued to emerge (most recently the Omicron variant) and, across the world, we continue to see periodic surges in infections. Why?

There are several reasons. But, chief among them has been the attempts of large pharmaceutical companies (such as Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca) who own the rights to COVID vaccines to make the most of the pandemic by making as much money from it as possible.

In today’s video, we’ll be looking at how “Big Pharma” (along with its allies in the governments of wealthy countries) has been withholding vaccines from “developing” countries, leading to what the head of the World Health Organization has called a state of “vaccine apartheid”.

And, we’ll consider how, in leaving large portions of the world’s population unvaccinated, this is allowing new variants to emerge and thus extending the pandemic.

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