Big Pharma’s Distressing Covid Profits

‘Doing well by doing good. In fact, doing obscenely well’

The race by Big Pharma for a vaccine to combat the Covid-19 coronavirus, a breathtaking scientific achievement, is also nothing more than the latest demonstration of the absolute moral bankruptcy of the western pharmaceutical industry. As many as 70 poor countries are likely to be left out in the short term, according to Jomo K. Sundaram, a Malaysian ec…