Next Steps for a People’s Vaccine

11.05.2021, 07:22 forbes.kz

The US Trade Representative While the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines was a truly impressive achievement, it has been tarnished by constraints on global vaccine supply and the related inequities in distribution. As of May 4, less than LONDON – “Nobody is safe until everyone is safe” is the defining mantra of ... → But this scarcity itself is largely artificial. Vaccine production has been limited by pharmaceutical companies’ refusal to share knowledge and technology. Though the companies producing the approved vaccines have benefited from public subsidies and These patents are enshrined and enforced internationally through the WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual