AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability claims in most countries

Re:AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability cla... by cmiles74 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @07:13PM (#24024740)

Keep in mind that they won't be marketing this vaccine at all. They agree to produce the vaccine at no profit.

"To back its claim to forgo profits from the $1.2 billion collaboration in the United States, Astra has even granted the government access to financial accounts related to the venture, according to Dobber."

With no profit at stake, I would bet they sell directly to the governments. I wonder if this means they can make no profit in any country... That would certainly be good news for the world at large but it's not clear to me from the text in the article.

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Re:AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability cla... by gruez on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:20PM (#24025161)

> That would certainly be good news for the world at large

If they made it for the us "profit free", then sold the patent/manufacturing process to their international subsidiaries for $1, then the rest of the countries and AstraZeneca is benefiting at the expense of the united states. We'd be basically funding the r&d for the vaccine and giving it to AstraZeneca for free.

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