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Charles Rice, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine: ‘It’s a crime that a drug exists that could cure everyone yet not everybody has access to it’ (english.elpais.com)

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (1 children)

About price gouging a hepatitis c drug.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Francis Collins....got behind the effort to eradicate hepatitis C in the United States by 2030. The Biden administration allocated about $10 billion to achieve this. With the new administration [of Donald Trump], this is all gone.*

also, TIL there's a cure for Hep-C.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://archive.is/jQL6N

Non-paywalled archive

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The irony of paywalling a piece positively portraying an anti paywall advocate is rich

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The alternative is paying through ads

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Don't get me wrong, journalism should be a paid profession in a capitalist society, just pointing out the irony (90s Alanis Morissette style).

While I do indeed hate paywalls and find modern journalism fundamentally broken, I recognize their utility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure anyone in the US has had enough pharma ads smashed in their faces for conditions they don't have their quota for a free vaccine should have been met about 20 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The same can be said for food.