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Vaccine apartheid is real. This is not a figment of the imagination or some kind of special pleading. Real people are dying because of the hoarding of vaccine doses by the richest nations.
Even when offered the opportunity to fix this by making big pharma, the powerful pharmaceutical companies, share their vaccine patents and technologies, the rich nations choose not to.
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