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Dump Behavioral Economics And Ramp Up Vaccine Production!

May 20, 2009 (LPAC)--Global discussion of the central issue of vaccine production, in the face of the new Type A influenza, is beginning to read like a behavorial economics quiz in Adolf Hitler's Germany. The argument runs like this:

"Dominated by a handful of pharmaceutical multinationals gripping their patents on feedstocks and manufacturing processes, existing production facilities worldwide can only produce five billion flu vaccine doses within one year--if and when they ever decide to start producing them. Assuming that two doses per person may be required to achieve immunity, we can only produce sufficient vaccine to protect one-third of the human race, from only one type of flu virus, either from the seasonal flu, or from the new A H1N1 virus spreading from country to country. Not both.

"You must now choose: Which four and half billion people should be left to die? Shall we start with the poor? Their lives are miserable; maybe not worth living."

You accept that choice, and you become complicit in implementing the declared British policy of reducing the world's population to under two billion people, within a generation or less. You don't believe that's policy? Go read Lord Bertrand Russell's 1953 book, The Impact of Science on Society. We don't recommend you ask Prince Philip; he might have died and already been reincarnated as a deadly virus, as he repeatedly has stated is his desire.

Whether or not the nations and leaders accept that deadly trap is being fought out now at the annual meeting of the World Health Organization ongoing in Geneva, Switzerland. Developing sector countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, China, Mexico, and others, are demanding that rights to the use of virus strains be declared "public goods," and made available to laboratories around the world to get to work on producing vaccines and anti-virals. As Brazilian Health Minister Jose Carlos Temperao told the WHO meeting yesterday, the decision must be taken, that the interests of public health override commercial interests. By mobilizing emergency training programs and laboratory construction projects, the rapid spread of this new influenza can be confronted.

A meeting between WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan, United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki Moon, and representatives of 30 pharmaceutical cartel companies yesterday, however, accepted the current, rigged terms of the discussion. "Partnerships with the private sector are absolutely vital," Ban Ki Moon stated. Spokesmen for the top pharmaceutical giants said production on any new virus against the H1N1 virus would not be ready to start until mid-July (conveniently, when their production of seasonal flu vaccine would end), not the late May date that had been expected.

That six-week delay alone may be measured in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives that will be lost as a result of the foot-dragging.

Some of the pharmaceutical companies generously offered to make 10% of their vaccine available to the United Nations for poor countries, suggesting, however, that a fund be set up to pay them for their efforts.

WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan remains caught in that British trap, declaring that "manufacturing capacity for antiviral drugs and influenza vaccines is finite and insufficient for a world with 6.8 billion inhabitants." Therefore, "it is absolutely essential that countries do not squander these precious resources through poorly targeted measures."

In the meantime, at the Tuesday meeting the WHO stuck with the British-directed policy of not calling for immediate production of vaccines for the new flu, saying they will meet again in 2-3 weeks to reconsider the matter.


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