South Africa has a law that says, if this vaccine project goes wrong, it's the government that has enough assets to deal with the consequences. So feizer said, you know, a country like south africa, a latin american country, goes with fizer and say, hey, we need vaccines to save our people from this deadly pandemic. And fiser says, ok, but we need you to like, pawn a military baseor or just have it as collateral,. so if you don't pay up, cause we're a little bit worried about you. Ah, they literally are sort of like putting ther taking out as taking out a second mortgage on the er,
Even though the COVID-19 vaccines were born of publicly-funded research, our privatized medical system has left them to for-profit companies like Pfizer to distribute, giving these private companies massive power in a time of great need. On the show this week to dive into the ways Pfizer has used and abuse its power is Financial Times global pharmaceutical correspondent Hannah Kuchler.
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