Suspending vaccine patents is the noble choice
09 May 2021 - 00:00
Katherine Tai, US trade representative, shocked the world on Wednesday with a brief but powerful tweet - an announcement that the Biden-Harris administration supports waiving intellectual property (IP) protection for Covid vaccines. "This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures. The administration strongly believes in IP, but in service of ending this pandemic supports the waiver of those protections for Covid-19 vaccines."..
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