This essay, on the dysfunctional pharmaceutical market, was my Observer column this week.  It was published on 7 June 2020, under the headline ‘If drug firms take public funds they must make their finds available to all’. ‘It’s tragic that we won’t have a vaccine ready for this epidemic,’ Peter Hotez told a US congressional committee in March. Tragic, because we could possibly already have had one. Hotez is director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the Texas Children’s Hospital. In 2016, he and his team […]

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