Why Are Moderna’s Billionaires Airbrushing Scientists Out of the Vaccine Patent Picture?

CAPITALISM, 22 Nov 2021

Sam Pizzigati | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service

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15 Nov 2021 – Moderna, the world’s hottest new Big Pharma giant, now has four of its top players sitting on the annual Forbes list of America’s 400 richest. In early 2020, Moderna had none.

Sam Pizzigati writes on inequality for the Institute for Policy StudiesHis latest book: The Case for a Maximum Wage (Polity). Among his other books on maldistributed income and wealth: The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970  (Seven Stories Press). 

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