Bill Gates says ‘NO’ to opening vaccine patents – adds it probably won’t take a DECADE for poor nations to get the jab
A suggestion to waive patent restrictions on Covid-19 vaccines has been rejected by Bill Gates, who said he doesn’t believe intellectual property has anything to do with the drawn-out global effort to rein in the pandemic.
Vaccines developed by pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer and Moderna enjoy global protection under the World Trade Organization (WTO). Considering the scarcity of the medicines, there have been increasing calls from countries like India and South Africa, international relief organizations and public figures to waive those protections so that poorer countries can get better access to the medicines.
However, one of the most publicized figures in the global vaccination campaign, Bill Gates, apparently believes it’s a bad idea. When asked by Sky News’ Sophy Ridge if stripping intellectual property protections from vaccine recipes would be helpful, the founder of Microsoft responded with an emphatic “No.”
Baby Murdered After Ultra Liberal San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin Let His Killer Go Free… TWICE
A seven-month-old baby boy has been murdered after ultra-liberal San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin let his killer go free twice after domestic abuse allegations.
Joseph Williams, 26, was released in January and March when Boudin’s office refused to prosecute the abuse cases.
The infant, Synciere Williams, was taken to the hospital with signs of severe trauma last week after being left in Williams’ care. The baby later died and the abuser has been charged for his murder.
The Daily Mail reports that “DA Boudin claimed they had been unable to book Williams for the assaults because the alleged victim who he was in a relationship with had not wanted to file charges. But California State law considers domestic violence a crime against the state, with campaigners saying it was Boudin’s duty to find a way to make a case stick.”
Kathy Black, the executive director of La Casa de las Madres, a shelter for domestic violence victims in the city, blasted the DA for not taking the abuse seriously to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Joe Biden Wears Mask Outside After CDC Updates Rules
President Joe Biden wore a mask outside the White House Tuesday, despite the Centers for Disease Control loosening mask rules for vaccinated Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
The president wore his aviator sunglasses and his mask as he arrived at the event, set outside the North Portico of the White House.
Biden said he wanted Americans to see him without his mask when he returned to the White House.
When asked what message he was sending with his mask, Biden replied that “by watching me take it off and not put it back on until I get inside,” Americans could see a visible change in the guidelines.
Maricopa County Judge Lets 2020 Election Audit Continue For Now
A judge in Arizona on Tuesday allowed a 2020 election audit in the state’s largest county to continue, at least until another hearing on April 28.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Daniel Martin said he would not extend a temporary restraining order that would have halted the audit on Friday if Arizona Democrats had posted a $1 million bond.
“I think this was a very productive and useful hearing. I still have some thinking to do about the requested relief from the plaintiffs. I will do that between now and tomorrow morning,” Martin said.
Democrats last week filed a last-minute lawsuit seeking to block the audit in Maricopa County, hours before the audit was slated to start. They claimed contractors hired by the Arizona Senate, which ordered the election review, were not properly securing ballots and equipment.
The audit of over 2 million ballots and dozens of electronic tabulators started on April 23.
Arizona’s Senate subpoenaed the election documents and machines in January and a judge the following month ruled the subpoenas were valid and must be obeyed.
Psaki Defends Biden Aborted Fetal Tissue Research: ‘It’s Important To Invest in Science’
- This as the FDA was recently discovered paying thousands of dollars for chopped up baby parts during the Obama/Biden era.
Joe Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki praised her boss for lifting a Trump-era ban on using aborted fetal tissue in scientific research, claiming it’s “important to invest in science.”
During a press briefing on Tuesday, a reporter quoted a Catholic pastor’s disgust for Biden’s lifting of the fetal tissue ban, asking how the White House “responds to that criticism.”
“I think the White House respectfully disagrees,” Psaki replied. “We believe that it’s important to invest in science and look for opportunities to cure diseases and that’s what I think this is hopeful to do.”
Earlier this month, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced that the federal government would lift restrictions on fetal tissue research put in place by Trump.
From the NIH website:
On June 5, 2019, HHS announced that NIH intramural research that requires new acquisition of human fetal tissue from elective abortions will not be conducted. Simultaneously, HHS announced new requirements for documentation and review by an Ethics Advisory Board of extramural research applications for NIH grants, cooperative agreements, and R&D contracts proposing the use of human fetal tissue obtained from elective abortions.
The move effectively resumes the left’s for-profit abortion-industrial pipeline with taxpayer-funded grants to colleges and medical schools.
During the Obama/Biden era, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) paid millions of dollars for chopped up fetuses – including eyeballs, brains and livers – from human tissue procurement groups like Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) for hundreds of dollars apiece.
In fact, according to 2012 FDA email records recently obtained by a Judicial Watch FOIA request, during Obama’s term the FDA paid an average price of $2,000 for each aborted child, adding up to $12,000 for a box of aborted baby tissue.
“These fetal organ trafficking documents shock the conscience and show potentially illegal use of tax dollars to purchase organs of the unborn killed through abortion,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said earlier this month.
