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Vaccines: A Case for Public Pharma

April 3, 2020
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Vaccines are critical to safeguarding public health as one of the most effective ways to prevent disease, including highly contagious diseases that can cause pandemics. But the for-profit pharmaceutical industry is neither prepared for nor incentivized to tackle growing public health challenges, like global pandemics.

The downloadable 1 page PDF below, produced in cooperation with the Center for Popular Democracy, makes the case for why we need public pharma to help combat pandemic threats like COVID-19.

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