Top officials from around the world are convened in Switzerland for a major World Trade Organization meeting. There, they'll decide whether to invalidate intellectual property (IP) protections for Covid vaccines. Some say that's necessary to ensure equal access for people everywhere, in nations rich and poor.
Vaccine equity is a laudable goal. But ironically, this proposal would strip away the very IP protections that allowed scientists to develop Covid vaccines in the first place. That's a terrible idea — a dire threat to biomedical innovation as we know it.
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