On May 5, the US government decided to throw its weight behind an increasingly-popular WTO measure: waiving intellectual property protections for COVID vaccines. But what is this waiver? And what could it actually mean for people looking to get inoculated? We explain how seemingly-arcane trade negotiations came to mean life and death for the billions of people waiting on a vaccine.
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Public health activists Achal Prabhala of accessibsa and Priti Krishtel @pritikrishtel) of I-MAK @IMAKglobal).
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