• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The Gates Foundation backpedaled that stance shortly after

    can you provide a source for this?

    Literally the first search result LINK

    Who is he to decide this?

    He was cohosting the multinational committee event for Gavi, a vaccine alliance which includes the WHO ans UNICEFF. He is widely respected there because he runs an organization which spent decades of providing medicines and vaccines across the globe.

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      Literally the first search result LINK

      This appears to be just a statement of support for “narrow” patent waviers during the pandemic. This is not the same as open licensing the Oxford vaccine and calling this “backpedaling” is misleading at best.