{"id":29138,"date":"2020-08-19T10:36:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T00:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29138"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T00:36:37","slug":"big-pharmas-covid-19-profiteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29138","title":{"rendered":"Big Pharma\u2019s Covid-19 Profiteers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Pharma_Vulture_Baby_Pill-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Pharma Vulture\" class=\"wp-image-29139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Pharma_Vulture_Baby_Pill-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Pharma_Vulture_Baby_Pill-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Pharma_Vulture_Baby_Pill-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Pharma_Vulture_Baby_Pill.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>How the race to develop treatments and a vaccine will create a historic windfall for the industry \u2014 and everyone else will pay the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Tom: Despite the fact that the article exposes some of the worst aspects of the drug company and government fleecing of the taxpayer, beware the false data in the article! Unless you spot it as propaganda, it conditions you to belive in an unreal, drug favourable mindset:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eg &#8220;since the pandemic won\u2019t be stopped unless the whole world gets treated.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One of these companies is likely to develop the drug that allows the world to go back to normal&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rolling-stone\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/big-pharma-covid-19-profits-1041185\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the race to develop treatments and a vaccine will create a historic windfall for the industry \u2014 and everyone else will pay the price. (Tom: Despite the fact that the article exposes some of the worst aspects of the drug company and government fleecing of the taxpayer, beware the false data in the article! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Pharma\u2019s Covid-19 Profiteers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29140,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138\/revisions\/29140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}