Pressure builds for Biden to back vaccine patent waivers msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Health 202: Whether to waive coronavirus vaccine patents will be front and center this week Alexandra Ellerbeck
with Paige Winfield Cunningham The United States is under heavy pressure to help suspend intellectual property rights for coronavirus vaccines.
It ll be a hot topic as the World Trade Organization holds its general meeting this Wednesday. A temporary patent waiver on the vaccines would let more companies produce them. The U.S. has joined several other wealthy countries in blocking a proposal spearheaded by South Africa and India for a temporary patent waiver on the vaccines. The waiver would allow companies around the world to produce generic versions of coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics for a temporary time without having to worry about being sued for intellectual property violations.
The Health 202: Whether to waive coronavirus vaccine patents will be front and center this week Alexandra Ellerbeck
with Paige Winfield Cunningham The United States is under heavy pressure to help suspend intellectual property rights for coronavirus vaccines.
It ll be a hot topic as the World Trade Organization holds its general meeting this Wednesday. A temporary patent waiver on the vaccines would let more companies produce them. The U.S. has joined several other wealthy countries in blocking a proposal spearheaded by South Africa and India for a temporary patent waiver on the vaccines. The waiver would allow companies around the world to produce generic versions of coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics for a temporary time without having to worry about being sued for intellectual property violations.
Impfstoff-Produktion: Die EU will nun alle Register ziehen msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The U.S. can t keep hoarding Covid-19 vaccines from the world
Vaccinating the world is more important than defending corporate profits.
The U.S. has enough vaccine doses to vaccinate every American and then some.Anjali Nair / MSNBC
April 9, 2021, 9:48 AM UTC
The American vaccination campaign is finally humming, a seemingly night-and-day difference from the mad scramble to obtain the minuscule number of vaccine doses available just two months ago. But because nothing is simple, there s a catch. You see, the speed of the U.S. vaccination program is built on a series of contracts the federal government signed with pharmaceutical companies at the start of their race for a vaccine.