Bill Gates is lying in this interview.

When AP looked into this claim a few months ago, it quickly found three factories in Bangladesh, South Africa, and Denmark that could rapidly start producing, but they couldn’t get permission. There are surely more.

https://apnews.com/article/drug-companies-called-share-vaccine-info-22d92afbc3ea9ed519be007f8887bcf6">https://apnews.com/article/d... https://twitter.com/moreperfectus/status/1387106780833067026">https://twitter.com/moreperfe...

The narrative Bill Gates is using is an outdated and racist one that assumes you can only trust quality control in factories in the Global North, or the few factories he has personally funded, like in India. It’s just not true.

His statements about not trusting Global South quality control are especially galling given the big fuck up in the United States that ruined 15 million J&J doses last month. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/politics/johnson-johnson-coronavirus-vaccine.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/3...

As I outlined, Gates intervened when Oxford planned to open source its formula. He has a long history of supporting strong IP rights in software that he’s unsurprisingly carried over to health. https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1353330538292121602">https://twitter.com/parismarx...

A small Canadian pharma company says it could make 20 million doses but can’t get permission, and knows another in the same situation.

“I don’t understand pharma’s stance on this. Everyone needs to make money, sure. But this is a very serious situation.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/24/covid-vaccines-patents-pharmaceutical-companies-secrecy">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...

In March, I spoke to @TimothyWSchwab about the Gates Foundation and how it gives its founders a lot of power and influence that we should be more critical of. https://twitter.com/techwontsaveus/status/1371113724535259143">https://twitter.com/techwonts...