US support for vaccine waiver welcome, but more needed

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Thanks to President Joe Biden, the US now supports a suspension of intellectual property (IP) rights to increase vaccine supplies. However, without vaccine developers sharing tacit technical knowledge for safe vaccine mass production, it will be difficult to rapidly scale up vaccine output.The CEOs of Pfizer and AstraZeneca had recently asked the US president to reject the waiver request. Nevertheless, on May 5, US trade representative Katherine Tai announced US support for a vaccine waiver. The hope is that many, mainly rich countries will now stop opposing the developing country waiver proposal.The World Trade Organization Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (Trips) waiver request by South Africa and India also includes Covid-19 tests, treatments and personal protective equipment (PPE), albeit only for the duration of the pandemic.Meanwhile, the WHO Access to Covid-19…