The latest delaying tactic? Insisting that any WTO vaccine waiver should exclude trade secrets - the know-how necessary to turn patents and scientific papers into vaccine production:
It's a maneuver only an IP lawyer could love.
It takes a lot of work to make an issue as clear-cut and urgent as vaccine equity into a controversy. Karan Menon manages to lay out the whole case in 95 seconds in a Tiktok video:
https://twitter.com/TheKaranMenon/status/1466912293380231168
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@pluralistic
I agree. Vaccines are essential and we should be as open as possible about the information necessary to produce them.
It never should be about "competition". It is not a game.