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A bitter pill for pharma

Shares in pharmaceutical companies slumped last week after the US government “threw its weight behind global plans for a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines to boost their production and distribution around the world”, says Julia Kollewe in The Guardian. Vaccine makers Moderna and Novavax fell

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