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Remember When Biden Promised to Waive Vaccine Patents as President?
Video has surfaced of the President making a clear and necessary promise he still has yet to keep.
With Covid cases continue to surge around the world and India setting a record number of cases seemingly every single day, the Biden administration has been facing mounting pressure to use its authority to waive vaccine patents as the majority of the Democrats in the House call on him to do so, and for obvious reasons. Apparently, his advisors are split, with some arguing he has a moral imperitive to act and others incredibly making the argument that they shouldn’t do it because they don’t know for certain if it will affect the global supply.
My guess is, as is so often the case, there are lobbyists with the pharmaceutical companies fomenting this talking point.
Unfortunately for the group urging him not to do the moral and ethical thing, video of the President on the campaign trail promising that he would waive vaccine patents has gone viral online. In it, when asked if he would waive them he says unequivocally:
“Absolutely, this is the only humane thing in the world to do.”
