The lesser known story:
Access to medical supplies and devices —COVID-19 and medical monopoly
Access to existing medical technology, crucial to stemming spread of the novel coronavirus, is particularly lacking in the Global South due to monopoly control.
23/10/2020
- Análisis
Discussions around access to potential vaccines for COVID-19 are widespread, particularly in the global South. Much less discussed is the lack of access to already existing medical technology crucial to stemming the spread of the novel coronavirus and assisting its most severely affected victims. The latter is the outcome of the monopoly control of medical technology — a phenomenon stretching at least as long as the monopoly of Big PHARMA — though much less understood.
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Source: SouthViews, No. 208, 19 October 2020
South Centre
https://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/209453?language=en
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