[co-author: Thomas Carr ]
On Wednesday, May 7, 2021, the United States officially endorsed waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines. While the United States has taken the opposite position in recent months, the administration asserts that its departure is guided, at least in part, by the goal “to get as many safe and effective vaccines to as many people as fast as possible.”[1] That goal, however, is unlikely to be affected by such a waiver in the short term due to uncertainty in World Trade Organization (“WTO”) politics, ongoing shortages on raw materials and equipment, and lag-time in retrofitting potential manufacturers.
It’s not clear when, or if, the WTO, currently comprising 164 members, will unanimously approve the waiver from certain provisions of the TRIPS agreement for the prevention, containment, and treatment of COVID-19. While there is indeed overwhelming support for waiver, some countries without facilities appropriately outfitted to m
Did tyrannosaurs live in groups? Experts discuss new fossil clues.
A new fossil site reveals a group of tyrannosaurs that died together, providing fresh evidence that these predators engaged in some form of social behavior.
ByMichael Greshko
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In July 2014, researchers looking for fossil turtles in southern Utah’s public lands found hints of a “monstrous murderer”: the ankle bone of a tyrannosaur named
Teratophoneus. Within hours, they had brushed through the sand between pinyon junipers and found the jumbled remains of multiple
Teratophoneus all of which seemed to have died in the same place, at the same time.
Scientists unveiled the site to the world in a study published last Tuesday in the scientific journal
John Morrissey By Liz O Connell, Contributor
As Saratoga Springs celebrates 150 years of thoroughbred racing, Liz O’Connell tells the tale of John Morrissey, an Irish immigrant who organized, operated and had the vision to develop what is now one of the world’s greatest racecourses.
A scant month after the Confederate Army was pushed back at Gettysburg, the “swells” holidaying in Saratoga Springs, New York, flocked to the first thoroughbred race meet contested on the Union Avenue trotting track. It was August 1863 and the meet lasted four days.
One hundred fifty years later, hundreds of thousands of fans trek annually to the peerless Saratoga Race Course, across the road from the site of those first races, for six weeks of the finest racing in America.
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