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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has been warned to back off after he offered large sums of cash to a German pharmaceutical company for exclusive access to a coronavirus vaccine.
The German press reported on Sunday that Washington wanted to gain exclusive access to the work of the CureVac company to secure a vaccine against Covd-19, “but for the US only.”
German Health Minister Jens Spahn told the US government that a takeover of CureVac was “off the table” and that any vaccine developed would be “for the whole world, not individual countries.”
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The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS