The worldwide Pharma industry HATES the new version of WHO's pandemic treaty
Well there will be no treaty without Big Pharma, so back to the drawing board. The new version was just released this week, and shows that trying to make everyone happy is one tough job.
As the body representing the global innovative pharmaceutical industry in official relations with the United Nations, IFPMA has issued the following statement in response.
Commenting on the draft of the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body’s (INB) international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, commonly referred to as the Pandemic Accord, circulated to member states today, IFPMA Director General, Thomas Cueni said:
“It would be better to have no pandemic treaty than a bad pandemic treaty, which the draft circulated to member states clearly represents.
“We must ensure future pandemic preparedness is informed by lessons from COVID-19, preserve what worked well, the innovation ecosystem that made possible the development of vaccines and treatment at record speed and scale, and fix what needs to be fixed, the inequity we saw in the roll out of these vaccines and treatments.
“The ability of the private sector to develop new vaccines and treatments in response to COVID-19 was driven by decades of R&D investment supported by the intellectual property framework and the ability of scientists to rapidly access data on pathogens. If adopted, the draft treaty would undermine both and leave us weaker ahead of the next pandemic than we were in December 2019, and we urge governments to make significant revisions to the current text.”
“It would be better to have no pandemic treaty than a bad pandemic treaty.”
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I say we skip Pharma altogether and start teaching holistic nutrition and supplementation K-12 and then put this all back in universities and graduate schools especially medical, dental, chiropractic (4 years worth as opposed to 4 hours worth).