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Pharmaceutical Firms Accused of Making 'Obscene Profits' Amid Global Vaccine Shortage


Pharmaceutical Firms Accused of Making 'Obscene Profits' Amid Global Vaccine Shortage
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Aid groups say at least nine executives and investors in companies making coronavirus vaccines have become billionaires in the last year thanks to the patents on their inoculations – and they are calling for the pharmaceutical firms to share their technology so that global production of vaccines can be quickly increased, as infections surge in many poorer nations. Henry Ridgwell reports from London.

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