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“This has a real potential to help save lives, strengthen the economy, improve international relations and eventually end this awful pandemic.” US Army Specialist Angel Laureano holds a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando. Under pressure, Biden backs COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver In the face of mounting international pressure, the Biden administration on Wednesday announced support for waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines — which campaigners welcomed as “a transformative, hop...

An average of 7 in 10 across G7 countries think their governments should force big pharma to share vaccine know-how An average of 7 in 10 across G7 countries think their governments should force big pharma to share vaccine know-how An average of 7 in 10 across G7 countries think their governments should force big pharma to share vaccine know-how Date: 5 May 2021 G7 governments still refusing to waive intellectual property on Covid-19 vaccines, despite widespread public support People’s Vaccine Alliance calls for G7 leaders to support a vaccine patent waiver at today’s foreign and developm...

Manufacturers facing growing pressure to transfer vaccine blueprints to other companies to help increase global production of doses

5 May 2021, 00:01 UTC G7 governments still refusing to waive intellectual property on Covid-19 vaccines, despite widespread public support People’s Vaccine Alliance calls for G7 leaders to support a vaccine patent waiver at today’s foreign and development ministers meeting in London. A supermajority of people in G7 countries believe that governments should ensure pharmaceutical companies share the formulas and technology to their vaccines, according to new polling from the People’s Vaccine Alliance. The public believes that pharmaceutical companies should be fairly compensated for devel...

Morals and the vaccine market May 04,2021 - Last updated at May 04,2021 ITHACA — As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic outstrips the severity of the first, a clear global bifurcation is emerging. The pandemic is abating, gradually and unevenly, across richer countries, but flaring up in several developing and emerging economies, most notably India, but also to varying degrees in countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Turkey, the Philippines, Ethiopia and Kenya. There are many reasons for this divide, but uneven access to healthcare — particularly the glaring inequity in access to C...