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SO - Medical Innovation NCTournament: Long Beach | Round: 1 | Opponent: IDK | Judge: IDK Medical Innovation NCMy value is life and my criteria is utilitarianism. Saving lives is the most important function of a government who must represent all of its people, and evaluating costs and benefits emphasizes critical comparative decision making skillsContention One – Waiving patents destroys pharmaceutical research. Eliminating patents undermines the financial incentives to innovate, and makes future investment uncertain.Vaitilingam, 2021 – advisor at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE ~Romesh May 20th, 2021 "Vaccines for developing countries: the costs and benefits of waiving patents" https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2021/05/20/vaccines-for-developing-countries-the-costs-and-benefits-of-waiving-patents/~~ Pharma companies are ramping up production of vaccines now, which will reach developing nations.Banerjee, 2021 - Project Coordinator in the Development Data Group at the World Bank ~Raka, "'Absolutely Unacceptable' COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in Developing Countries" The Development Podcast August 3, https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/podcast/2021/07/30/-absolutely-unacceptable-vaccination-rates-in-developing-countries-the-development-podcast~~ Contention Two - Patents are necessary to bring an end to the COVID 19 pandemic – three reasons.First – Ramp Up - It is essential to incentivize pharmaceutical companies to ramp up vaccine production.Jofre-Bonet, 2021 - Research Professor at the School of Public Health at Yale University, ~Mireia "Would Waiving COVID-19 Vaccines Patents Save Lives?" with Mikel Berdud, Dimitrios Kourouklis, and Adrian Towse Tuesday, 18 May 2021 https://www.ohe.org/news/would-waiving-covid-19-vaccines-patents-save-lives~~ Ramp up is the only way to solve in timeVaitilingam, 2021 – advisor at the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE ~Romesh May 20th, 2021 "Vaccines for developing countries: the costs and benefits of waiving patents" https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2021/05/20/vaccines-for-developing-countries-the-costs-and-benefits-of-waiving-patents/~~ Ramp up is the only way to maintain safety and confidence by avoiding counterfeit drugsBowman and Valentine, 2021 – NPR Correspondents ~Emma and Ashish "The Coronavirus Crisis Biden Backs Waiving International Patent Protections For COVID-19 Vaccines" May 5, 2021 https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/05/05/993998745/biden-backs-waiving-international-patent-protections-for-covid-19-vaccines~~ Second – Distribution – Producing vaccines is only the first step. Industry cooperation is essential to maintain supply lines. Waiving patents undermines cooperation.Silverman, 2021 – Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development ~Rachel February 8 "Would Exempting COVID-19 Vaccines from Intellectual Property Rights Improve Global Access and Equity?" Moderated By CGD President Masood Ahmed https://www.cgdev.org/debate/would-exempting-covid-19-vaccines-intellectual-property-rights-improve-global-access~~ Third – Mutations. Follow on research will be necessary to adapt to new variants. The affirmative dries up investment for that research.Towse, 2021 – Senior Research Fellow, Office of Health Economics ~Adrian, February 8 "Would Exempting COVID-19 Vaccines from Intellectual Property Rights Improve Global Access and Equity?" Moderated By CGD President Masood Ahmed https://www.cgdev.org/debate/would-exempting-covid-19-vaccines-intellectual-property-rights-improve-global-access~~ Contention Three – Future PandemicsWaiving patents for COVID sets the precedent for future investment in medical research. The affirmative will undermine our ability to respond to the Next Pandemic.BBC, 2021 ~March 20 "Covid: Rich states 'block' vaccine plans for developing nations" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-56465395~~ The Next Pandemic is inevitable, and risks human extinction.Diamandis, 2021 - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology University of Toronto ~Eleftherios 13 April 2021 Working Paper Review Version 1 – pre-peer review "The Mother of All Battles: Viruses vs. Humans. Can Humans Avoid Extinction in 50-100 Years?" https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202104.0397/v1~~ | 9/18/21 |
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