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Charlotte Kilpatrick

Charlotte Kilpatrick is a Franco-American journalist in London covering intellectual property and access to medicine.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks during a press conference with European Commission President after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at the factory of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, in Puurs, on April 23, 2021. (JOHN THYS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Big Pharma is dead set on preventing poorer countries from making their own vaccines

Charlotte Kilpatrick

US President Joe Biden (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

There’s already a law on the books that could lower prescription drug prices — but no one’s using it

Charlotte Kilpatrick

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks during a press conference with European Commission President after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at the factory of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, in Puurs, on April 23, 2021. (JOHN THYS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The COVID vaccine patent war has an unsettling parallel in HIV drugs

Charlotte Kilpatrick

Scott Peters, Kathleen Rice and Kurt Schrader (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Moderate Democrats are about to sell out Americans to drug companies

Charlotte Kilpatrick

View of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine vials (Niels Wenstedt/BSR Agency/Getty Images))

Governments paid to develop the COVID vaccines. Big Pharma wants to hoard the patents

Charlotte Kilpatrick

Box of vaccine vials (Getty images/Iryna Veklich)

The West is hoarding the vaccine at its own peril

Charlotte Kilpatrick

COVID-19 Vaccine Patent (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

COVID-19 has shown how Big Pharma is broken

Charlotte Kilpatrick

Moderna and Pfizer (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Big Pharma could supply the whole world with a COVID vaccine. They’ve chosen not to

Charlotte Kilpatrick

The coronavirus vaccine will not be free: Americans have already paid for it — twice

Charlotte Kilpatrick