Make coronavirus vaccines patent-free, former world leaders urge Biden
Charles DavisApr 15, 2021, 07:20 IST
Dr. Michelle Chester draws the Covid-19 vaccine into a syringe at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, on December 14, 2020 in the Queens borough of New York.MARK LENNIHAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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vaccines.
The move would allow developing countries to produce the vaccines on their own.
The request came in a letter signed by over 100 Nobel laureates and 75 former world leaders.
US pharmaceutical companies have developed the world s most effective vaccines for the coronavirus, helping Americans get inoculated faster than people in most other countries. Now President Joe Biden is being urged not just to share the vaccines with the less fortunate, but to share the knowledge that would allow developing nations to manufacture the vaccines themselves.
Make coronavirus vaccines patent-free, former world leaders urge Biden
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How Bill Gates Impeded Global
Access to Covid Vaccines
Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.
Illustration by Kelsey Dake
On February 11, 2020, public health and infectious disease experts gathered
by the hundreds at the World Health Organization’s Geneva mothership. The official pronouncement of a pandemic was still a month out, but the
agency’s international brain trust knew enough to be worried. Burdened by a
sense of borrowed time, they spent two days furiously sketching an “R&D Blueprint”
in preparation for a world upended by the virus then known as 2019-nCoV.
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The jury, at the District Court for the Western District of Texas, ruled that the patents belonging to the Fortress Investment Group subsidiary were valid and that Intel did infringe, but that the infringement was not wilful.
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