The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good
The pandemic has laid bare the lack of regulation for the sharing of intellectual property needed for an effective and equitable response.
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Read more: Promoting Vaccine Equity Promoting Vaccine Equity
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief longstanding equity problems surrounding the allocation of newly developed vaccines.
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Read more: Should Vaccinating Children Off-Label Against COVID-19 Be Universally Prohibited? Should Vaccinating Children Off-Label Against COVID-19 Be Universally Prohibited?
We think that off-label pediatric administration of approved COVID-19 vaccines should be left to individual risk-benefit judgments.
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Read more: What’s the Law on Vaccine Exemptions? A Religious Liberty Expert Explains What’s the Law on Vaccine Exemptions? A Religious Liberty Expert Explains
The legal basis of Americans’ supposed right to a religious exemption to vaccination is less clear than such policies’ popularity would suggest.
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Read more: Preventing Misuse of COVID-19 Vaccine Medical Exemptions Preventing Misuse of COVID-19 Vaccine Medical Exemptions
Entities imposing COVID-19 vaccination mandates can take simple but significant steps to counter misuse of medical exemptions.
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Read more: Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic
Activists in the access-to-medicines movement have mobilized to combat the threat of vaccine/therapeutic apartheid during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read more: Payments for COVID-19 Vaccination: Ethical and Legal Considerations Payments for COVID-19 Vaccination: Ethical and Legal Considerations
Should we pay people to receive COVID-19 vaccines? This post summarizes key ethical and legal considerations.
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Read more: Why Do Differences in Clinical Trial Design Make It Hard to Compare COVID-19 Vaccines? Why Do Differences in Clinical Trial Design Make It Hard to Compare COVID-19 Vaccines?
Because of differences in how they were tested in clinical trials, it is difficult to make apples-to-apples comparisons for COVID-19 vaccines.
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Read more: Religious Exemptions to Vaccines and the Anti-Vax Movement Religious Exemptions to Vaccines and the Anti-Vax Movement
Granting exemptions on the basis of religion incentivizes people to lie, and exemptions are more likely to be given to people who have lied well.
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Read more: The Prospects for an IP Waiver Under the TRIPS Agreement The Prospects for an IP Waiver Under the TRIPS Agreement
Going forward, practical solutions should focus on scaling up manufacturing and supply, and improving access and affordability.
