Submitted on Friday 26th February 2021
Rejected on Friday 5th March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
The Government should support the proposal to scrap patents on COVID-19 vaccines
The government currently supports the intellectual property system relating to COVID-19 vaccines on the world stage. This will limit the production of vaccines whilst supporting Big Pharma. The government has the responsibility to make these vaccines available during this global struggle.
Much of the money used to fund the development of medicines/vaccines for COVID-19 is public money. Thus, it is inappropriate to funnel much of this money back into profits for Big Pharma at the cost of high COVID-19 rates in other countries.
Furthermore, high infection rates Worldwide increase the chance of the new strains with possible immunity to our current vaccines.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/564005
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