the administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections. But in service of ending this pandemic supports the waiver of those protections for COVID-19 vaccines.
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Katherine Tai discusses the Biden administration's support for waiving vaccine patent rules to increase global access to COVID-19 vaccines.
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