Well, whether Gates is right or not is besides the point. He’s not a party to the deal. He was only providing advice there - as far as we know.
Re exclusivity: yes we cannot discuss it here as we don’t have the relevant information. This is a commercial and confidential deal between two independent entities. Unless UK government forces Oxford University to open up about the deal, we cannot expect AZ to do so.
We are discussing this as if it were a public goods, but it is not - unless UK government forces the Uni to make it such. And they could, after all, it was all paid with taxpayers money.
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Either way, I hope we can now all agree the original KHN article read but based on facts and is debunked now. That was all I was after here.
