Extension of COVID-19 Vaccine Waiver Uncertain After WTO Conference

“If the Pandemic Accord doesn’t include clear and comprehensive provisions allowing low- and middle–income countries to overcome Big Pharma’s monopoly control over supply, price, and distribution of vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics, we’ll see the savage inequity of COVID-19 and AIDS repeated in the next pandemic,” says Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for HealthGAP.