Alex Zaitchik joins us to walk through how the TRIPS council was formed in the first place, and the direct role that pharmaceutical companies—including and especially Pfizer—played in shaping global intellectual property throughout the 20th century.
Read Alex's piece in The New Republic, "Long, Strange TRIPS: The Grubby History of How Vaccines Became Intellectual Property" here: https://newrepublic.com/article/162527/long-strange-trips-grubby-history-vaccines-became-intellectual-property
Alexander Zaitchik is a freelance journalist. His next book, Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to Covid-19, will be published by Counterpoint in 2022.
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