Discussions around access to potential vaccines for COVID-19 are widespread, particularly in the global South.
Much less discussed is the lack of access to already existing medical technology crucial to stemming the spread of the novel coronavirus
and assisting its most severely affected victims. The latter is the outcome of the monopoly control of medical technology
— a phenomenon stretching at least as long and wide as the monopoly of Big PHARMA — but much less understood.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344808581_Access_to_medical_supplies_and_devices_–_the_lesser_known_story_of_COVID-19_and_medical_monopoly
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