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Team Biden Erodes the IP Protection That Undergirds Global Public Health

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Team Biden Erodes the IP Protection That Undergirds Global Public Health
A medical worker shows a syringe with a vaccine at a healthcare center in Yantai city, Shandong Province, China, on Jan. 5, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Anders Corr
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There are ways to do well by doing good, and successful vaccine development is one of them. COVID-19 vaccines are now protecting the world from death and disease. But in the next pandemic—due to the erosion of intellectual property protections for vaccine science on a global level—we may not be so lucky.

Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea" (2018).
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