snails with the beard - Day

Thursday, April 22, 2021

11:04AM - 26,000,000,000

"The alliance estimates that Pfizer has paid out $8.44bn in dividends, Johnson & Johnson $10.5bn in dividends and $3.2bn in share buybacks, and AstraZeneca $3.6bn in dividends.
[...]
About 700m doses of Covid vaccines have been given around the world, according to the UN, but the numbers are heavily skewed towards rich countries. “On average in high-income countries, almost one in four people has received a vaccine. In low-income countries, it’s one in more than 500,” said the World Health Organization’s director general, Tedros Adhanonom Ghebreyesus, on 9 April."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/22/campaign-to-waive-covid-jab-patent-highlights-26bn-shareholder-payouts

(13 comments | comment on this)
Previous day (Calendar) Next day