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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) released a sprawling report on Tuesday analyzing market dynamics surrounding the question of whether to extend the waiver of IP rights for COVID-19 technologies under the TRIPS Agreement to diagnostics and therapeutics.

Prior to its inclusion in the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed scheme for the rapid deployment of Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) "vaccines," Moderna agreed to pay the U.S. [...]

Decisions made regarding vaccines have inflicted incalculable misery, shaping how the German leader will be remembered.

Trade body overcomes national differences to reach deal on jabs, as well as in digital products and fishing.

Pfizer Inc is expected to provide 10 million courses of its COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid to low- and middle-income countries this year

Pfizer to provide 10 mln courses of COVID pill to developing countries

By Michael Erman (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc is expected to provide around 10 million courses of its highly effective COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid...

The Covid-19 treatment molnupiravir was developed using funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.

NationofChange CounterSpin interview with James Love on Bill Gates & vaccine politics... CounterSpin        Janine Jackson: A recent  New York Times story, “Pressure Mounts to Lift Patent Protections on Coronavirus Vaccines,” reported that President Biden and drug makers face demands from “liberal activists and global leaders” to suspend intellectual property rights on vaccines, as people continue to die and suffer myriad long-term harms from a virus for...

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