Business-as-Usual will not Deliver the COVID-19 Vaccines We Need

Governments must become active shapers of medical innovation and drive the development of critical health technologies as global health commons. The ‘race’ for COVID-19 vaccines is exposing the deficiencies of a business-as-usual medical innovation ecosystem driven by corporate interests, not health...

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Autor principal: Torreele, Els
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2020
Materias:
Upfront
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7649577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33192028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41301-020-00261-1
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description Governments must become active shapers of medical innovation and drive the development of critical health technologies as global health commons. The ‘race’ for COVID-19 vaccines is exposing the deficiencies of a business-as-usual medical innovation ecosystem driven by corporate interests, not health outcomes. Instead of bolstering collective intelligence, it relies on competition between proprietary vaccines and allows the bar on safety and efficacy to be lowered, risking people’s health and undermining their trust.
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spelling pubmed-76495772020-11-09 Business-as-Usual will not Deliver the COVID-19 Vaccines We Need Torreele, Els Development (Rome) Upfront Governments must become active shapers of medical innovation and drive the development of critical health technologies as global health commons. The ‘race’ for COVID-19 vaccines is exposing the deficiencies of a business-as-usual medical innovation ecosystem driven by corporate interests, not health outcomes. Instead of bolstering collective intelligence, it relies on competition between proprietary vaccines and allows the bar on safety and efficacy to be lowered, risking people’s health and undermining their trust. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2020-11-09 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7649577/ /pubmed/33192028 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41301-020-00261-1 Text en © Society for International Development 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Business-as-Usual will not Deliver the COVID-19 Vaccines We Need
title Business-as-Usual will not Deliver the COVID-19 Vaccines We Need
title_full Business-as-Usual will not Deliver the COVID-19 Vaccines We Need
title_fullStr Business-as-Usual will not Deliver the COVID-19 Vaccines We Need
title_full_unstemmed Business-as-Usual will not Deliver the COVID-19 Vaccines We Need
title_short Business-as-Usual will not Deliver the COVID-19 Vaccines We Need
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7649577/
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