Joe Biden’s administration supports waiving intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines, following global pressure to temporarily suspend patent provisions in the face of the public health crisis.
“These extraordinary times and circumstances of call for extraordinary measures,” US trade ambassador Katherine Tai announced on Wednesday.
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