How does the patent process work for vaccines in the US, and how does the ongoing global health crisis affect the law? On WGBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed gives a breakdown of the basic intellectual property law related to developing a vaccine for COVID-19.
“The license between Pfizer and the Medicines Patent Pool is disappointingly limited to only 95 countries with just 53% of the world’s population, or 4.1 billion people,” Professor Brook Baker tell STAT.
“To pretend that a dose in an American arm doesn’t mean one less dose in an African arm doesn’t make sense,” Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Scientific American.
Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined WGBHNews' Morning Edition to talk about how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting the Mass. court system: "It's a whole new world."
On GBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed discusses a new bill recently passed by the Massachusetts Legislature that would allow unauthorized immigrants to secure driver's licenses and some of the controversy surrounding it.
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“This very situation arose a couple of years ago when #MassAndCass was cleared out under Operation Clean Sweep,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Heath in Justice Action Lab, tells NBC10 Boston “And we’re back where we started so clearly this kind of approach doesn’t work.”
“I think people are looking to Colorado to see how it plays out and whether it should be part of the criminal justice reform agenda,” Professor Deborah Ramirez, faculty co-director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) tells Business Insurance.