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Big Pharma Offers Veiled Threats as US Lawmakers Defend COVID-19 Vaccine Patent-Breaking Law LUCY NICHOLSON Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/society/202104071082558876-big-pharma-offers-veiled-threats-as-us-lawmakers-defend-covid-19-vaccine-patent-breaking-law/ With much of the Global South expected to lag several years behind Western nations in their COVID-19 vaccination efforts, popular pressure is mounting for Western governments to relax or waive patent laws on the drugs’ formulae, allowing their manufacture abroad, but cutting into pharmaceutical giants’ profits. On Monday, the comment period for revising the Bayh-Dole Act, a 1980 health care law allowing the US government to “march in” and break patents for drugs made using federal funds if regulators determine the price is exorbitantly high. The change, initiated by former US President Donald Trump, would weaken the act by denying the federal government the right to do so based on price alo

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