The Meadows Novice Neg
| Tournament | Round | Report |
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| Damien | 2 | Opponent: IDK | Judge: IDK SO Medical Innovation 20 |
| Long Beach | 1 | Opponent: IDK | Judge: IDK SO - Novice Medical Innovation |
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SO - Novice Medical InnovationTournament: Long Beach | Round: 1 | Opponent: IDK | Judge: IDK Negative CaseMy value is life. Life is the most important priority to focus on, because Life is a precondition for all other values. To be equal, we must first be alive.My criterion is our obligation to future generations. For the human race to progress, we must ensure that our actions today make it possible for people to live in the future. There is no reason why one life today is worth more than one life ten years from now – we are accustomed to thinking about Life in the here and now, and not thinking about it in the long term. However, in the future, there will be many more people, so if we want to preserve life, we are obligated to preserve a world that takes into account future generations. When looking at medicines and vaccines, we cannot just look at the current crisis – we must expect that in the future we will also face newer, larger pandemics.Contention One: The Status Quo is working1. The spread of COVID is declining without waiving patents. The virus has rapidly declined in cases around the world from 2020 to 2021. The peak of the coronavirus occurred on January 1st, 2021, with a total of 881,557 total cases world wide. The latest recorded data of the number of cases is on September 5th, 2021, with an approximate total of 368,309 cases. That is the difference of a decline in cases by 513,248.~https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103046/new-coronavirus-covid19-cases-number-worldwide-by-day~~ 2. Vaccine companies are ramping up production of vaccines, and surplus vaccines from developed nations are being distributed to developing nations through programs like the World Health Organization's COVAX program. COVAX collects vaccines that provide for at least 20 of a country's population in which these vaccines are delivered as soon as they are available.The World Health Organization, 2021 ~"COVAX With a fast-moving pandemic, no one is safe, unless everyone is safe" https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax~~ 3. The United Nations Children's Fund negotiated a long term supply agreement with the Serum Institute of India that allows intellectual property from AstraZeneca and Novavax to distribute up to 1.1 billion affordable doses of vaccines for lower-middle income countriesJerving 2021 - a Global Health Reporter based in Nairobi ~Sara, 03 February 2021 Inside Development "COVAX releases country-by-country vaccine distribution figures" https://www.devex.com/news/covax-releases-country-by-country-vaccine-distribution-figures-99058~~ Contention Two: Releasing Patents undermines Medical ResearchPatents create an incentive for pharmaceutical companies to research drugs, vaccines, and other medical equipment and to improve drugs to adapt to future epidemics. Medical research costs Billions of dollars for testing and producing effective and safe drugs. If the companies can't make a profit, they would not be able to even start, because they would not find investors for their capital. Patents keep medical research going because it guarantees a return on that investment. With the competition that patents incentivize, the vaccines become stronger and more cost effective. This benefits the consumer who then have a choice of vaccines.Stansel, 2019 - Executive vice president and general counsel of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America ~James, July 18, 2019, USAToday, "PhRMA: Patents yield real benefits for patients" https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/07/18/phrma-patents-yield-real-benefits-patients-editorials-debates/1772812001/~~ Patents incentivize pharmaceutical companies to ramp up vaccine production and develop new supply routes for distribution. Waiving patents will hurt cooperation with the companies necessary to end the pandemic.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~~ Contention Three – Medical Innovations are necessary to save more lives in the future.Today, we are battling the coronavirus. We are winning the battle because scientists from biotech and pharmaceutical companies have been researching mRNA vaccines for over thirty years. Patents on mRNA research decades ago led to vaccines today. Without those patents and that research, we would have an additional 279,000 deaths in the US alone from COVID-19.Galvani, 2021 - the founding director of the Yale Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis ~Alison Issue Briefs July 7, 2021 "Deaths and Hospitalizations Averted by Rapid U.S. Vaccination Rollout" https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2021/jul/deaths-and-hospitalizations-averted-rapid-us-vaccination-rollout~~ Though it is difficult to think about, in the future, we will have another pandemic, more dangerous than the Coronavirus, with more lives at risk. The vaccine saved us in this pandemic, but without medical innovations, it is likely that we will not be so lucky next timeDiamandis, 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 |
SO Medical Innovation NC - 20Tournament: Damien | Round: 2 | Opponent: IDK | Judge: IDK Novice Negative Case 2.0My value is life. Life is the most important priority to focus on, because Life is a precondition for all other values. To be equal, we must first be alive.My criterion is our obligation to future generations. A life today is no more valuable than a life in the future. There will be even more people in the future, so sacrificing two lives in the future to save one life today is simply a short term bias.Contention One: The Status Quo is working1. Vaccine companies are cooperating with the government to Ramp Up production of vaccines now, which will reach developing nations through programs like COVAX.Ellyatt, Sept 22, 2021 - CNBC writer on European macro-economics ~Holly Sept 22 2021 CNBC.com "U.S. to donate millions more Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses to poorer nations" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/22/us-to-donate-millions-more-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-doses-to-poorer-nations.html~~ 2. The United Nations Children's Fund negotiated a long term supply agreement with the Serum Institute of India that allows intellectual property from AstraZeneca and Novavax to distribute up to 1.1 billion affordable doses of vaccines for lower-middle income countriesJerving 2021 - a Global Health Reporter based in Nairobi ~Sara, 03 February 2021 Inside Development "COVAX releases country-by-country vaccine distribution figures" https://www.devex.com/news/covax-releases-country-by-country-vaccine-distribution-figures-99058~~ Contention Two – Pharma CooperationWaiving patents undermines government cooperation with pharmaceutical companies – it is an Antagonistic policy that hurts supply chains and distribution.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~~ Cooperation is essential to ramping up production – waiving patents would undermine investment necessary to increase 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~~ Ramping up solves the COVID pandemic better than the Affirmative – it is much faster to Ramp Up.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/~~ Contention Three – Medical InnovationSubpoint One - waiving patents hurts pharmaceutical innovation – medical research is expensive, and investors need patents to ensure their costs are paid.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/~~ 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~~ | 10/19/21 |
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