“The decision to suspend the intellectual property of vaccines would allow for a sharing of knowledge together with a transfer of technologies and know-how: production capacities scattered around the world would be exploited”, says Silvia Mancini, public health expert at Doctors Without Borders. .
Suspension of vaccine patents, the reasons for the yes. Msf: “Sharing knowledge to defeat the virus”
Biden’s openness to the revocation of patents for anti-Covid vaccines has generated a wide debate between governments and pharmaceutical companies. Doctors Without Borders has launched an appeal to Mario Draghi, siding in favor of the temporary suspension of patents with a view to increasing the production of vaccines.
by Francesco Castagna
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