{"id":1200,"date":"2020-12-06T01:13:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T01:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/06\/a-peoples-vaccine-drugmakers-set-to-profit-from-covid-vaccines-made-with-publicly-funded-research-4\/"},"modified":"2020-12-06T01:13:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T01:13:12","slug":"a-peoples-vaccine-drugmakers-set-to-profit-from-covid-vaccines-made-with-publicly-funded-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/06\/a-peoples-vaccine-drugmakers-set-to-profit-from-covid-vaccines-made-with-publicly-funded-research\/","title":{"rendered":"A People\u2019s Vaccine? Drugmakers Set to Profit from COVID Vaccines Made with Publicly Funded Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"7VN_orOiM4c\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>With the world pinning its hopes on a successful coronavirus vaccine to curb the pandemic, corporate watchdogs say much of the research and development of the medicines rely on publicly funded research. \u201cThe investment in these vaccines, as for most drugs, has really been underwritten by the taxpayer, by the government,\u201d says Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen.<\/p>\n<p>#DemocracyNow<\/p>\n<p>Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: <a href=\"https:\/\/democracynow.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/democracynow.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: <a href=\"https:\/\/democracynow.org\/donate\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/democracynow.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE:<br \/>\nYouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/democracynow\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/youtube.com\/democracynow<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/democracynow\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/facebook.com\/democracynow<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/democracynow\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/democracynow<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/democracynow\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/democracynow<\/a><br \/>\nSoundCloud: <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/democracynow\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/democracynow<\/a><br \/>\niTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/democracy-now!-audio\/id73802554\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/democracy-now!-audio\/id73802554<\/a><br \/>\nDaily Email Digest: <a href=\"https:\/\/democracynow.org\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/democracynow.org\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/06\/a-peoples-vaccine-drugmakers-set-to-profit-from-covid-vaccines-made-with-publicly-funded-research-4\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the world pinning its hopes on a successful coronavirus vaccine to curb the pandemic, corporate watchdogs say much of the research and development of the medicines rely\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}