Posted on April 28, 2021.
One hundred seventy-five world-renowned figures, including former heads of government and Nobel Prize winners, recently sent a joint letter to U.S. President Joe Biden asking him to temporarily suspend patent rights on the COVID-19 vaccine. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Nobel Prize recipient Joseph Stiglitz wrote, “Tentative suspension of patent rights is indispensable to end the COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccine technology must be shared.”
COVID-19 has left the world in pain, but the distribution of vaccines, which is a “game-changer,” is biased toward developed countries. Ten countries account for 75% of the world’s vaccinations, and many have yet to begin vaccination. Despite this situation, developed countries are competing to hoard vaccines. The European Union, which has 50 million doses of the Moderna vaccine, is pursuing a contract to supply an additional 1.8 billion doses by 2023, and the U.S., which has 600 million doses, i
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