Coronavirus: US to back waiving intellectual property protections for vaccines

The US will back a proposal to waive intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines, with the Biden administration’s top trade official citing the “extraordinary circumstances” of a pandemic that has yet to be brought under control.The Biden administration “believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service of ending this pandemic, supports the waiver of those protections for Covid-19 vaccines”, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said in an official announcement…

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