Imposing price controls on drugs that use NIH funded research makes preparing for pandemics more difficult, reduces patients’ access, and harms future innovation
Rattled by the failure of the Biden Administration to bow to pressure to misuse the march-in rights provision of the Bayh-Dole Act so the government can regulate prices on products based on federally funded inventions, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and his allies are doubling down.
A bipartisan U.S. Senate group introduced a bill Wednesday meant to help communities track pathogens in wastewater, including tracking the presence of SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19.