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Sharing the secrets of making a Covid-19 vaccine isn’t enough. Here’s why 30 Jun 2021 Vaccinating the globe: Workers on the Covid-19 vaccine production line at the Serum Institute of India in Pune. The factory is making the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccination. Photo: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg/Getty Images What would happen if Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers such as Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna gave up their intellectual property rights tomorrow and agreed to share the recipes of their shots with South Africa?  The short answer is that the country still wouldn’t be able to make the jabs, because it wouldn’t know how to formulate the recipes. The longer explanation is that it will take many months for South Africa to master the technology and skills required to add the ingredients of the recipes together in the right way. 

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