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Ending the pandemic will take global access to COVID-19 treatment and vaccines – which means putting ethics before profits

  • Written by Nicole Hassoun, Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageIndian health workers doing health checks in Mumbai, June 17, 2020.AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File

As COVID-19 surges in the United States and worldwide, even the richest and best insured Americans understand, possibly for the first time, what it’s like not to have the medicines they need to survive if they get sick. There is no coronavirus...

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