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Vaccine Heroes Wake Up to Bruising Reality
Anger over inequitable distribution and access shouldn’t be allowed to fester.
Tackling inequitable distribution.
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The discovery of multiple safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines has been the reputational boost the pharmaceutical industry needed. As science has caught up to the coronavirus, the price-inflating antics of Martin Shkreli and manufacturers’ roles in the opioid epidemic have faded into the background while people literally raise their glass to drugmakers like Pfizer Inc.
A Harris poll found that U.S. public opinion of the sector had risen to 62% in February, up from 32% before the pandemic, the biggest jump among several industries.