Durham, NC — The rates of “moral injury” that health care workers experienced during the first year of COVID-19 pandemic was akin to those of U.S. military combat veterans, results of a recent study show. Researchers from Duke University, Vanderbilt University and the Department of Veterans Affairs define a “moral […]
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Big Pharma Is Still Making Absurd Profits Off of the Pandemic
Last week, drug giant Pfizer told investors that it expects to make more than $50 billion off its COVID-19 medicines this year. Its vaccine is the most lucrative medicine in history, accruing $37 billion in 2021, and has sent its corporate revenues into the stratosphere. By the end of this year, […]
Big pharma profiting off of the pandemic neglects public health | Opinion
(Gabriela Mendoza / Daily Titan) Millions of lives were at stake when the COVID-19 pandemic loomed over the United States with no mass vaccine distribution. Despite big pharmaceutical companies swooping in to the rescue, they are not heroes but pandemic profiteers. American vaccine manufacturers like Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & […]