Patent impasse to vaccinating billions
COVID-19 vaccines look set to protect millions of citizens of the world’s richest countries in the coming months. But inoculating the rest of the planet’s population may mean finding a way around an impasse over intellectual property.
Representatives from all 164 member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO) met last week in Geneva to discuss a proposal from India and South Africa to waive broad sections of the WTO’s intellectual property (IP) rules and to try to forge an agreement on how patents developed
