The difficulty of learning the technology behind mRNA vaccines poses a major obstacle to President Joe Biden’s proposal aiding poor countries by defying the pharmaceutical industry and waiving patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines.
The rationale for the patent waiver would be to allow developing countries to reproduce currently existing COVID-19 vaccines without having to worry about getting sued by the pharmaceutical companies that hold the patents.
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