Day: February 17, 2024
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Lessons from COVID reveal how monopoly power in the biopharmaceutical industry is evolving
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Politics Professor Matt Sparke, co-director of UC Santa Cruz’s Global and Community Health Program, kept a close watch on the global biopharmaceutical industry. Like many others around the world, he was deeply concerned by huge global inequalities in access to testing tools, vaccines, and other biomedical counter-measures. As a scholar of…