> ... the trailer for The Shot Felt ’Round the World, the Remarkable story of Dr. Jonas Salk. This is the famous journalist Edward Murrow asking Dr. Jonas Salk in 1955 who owns the patent to the polio vaccine... " There is no patent. This is — could you patent the sun?"

- https://www.democracynow.org/2021/1/15/coronavirus_polio_vaccine_development_peter_salk

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> [ #Cuba is ] part of the Global South. And we understand that medicines and vaccines are not a commodity. It’s not something to get rich with. It’s something to save people’s lives. And we’re really in favor of sharing technology and of working with people around the world.
- https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/27/cuba_beat_covid_despite_us_embargo
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