COVID vaccines and drugs to all
Vianney Dequiedt (CERDI-UCA-CNRS) just published in Nature "Pool patents to get COVID vaccines and drugs to all" with Etienne Billette de Villemeur (Université de Lille) and Bruno Versaevel (EMLyon Business School, GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne).
Pool patents to get COVID vaccines and drugs to all
"We call on pharmaceutical companies to contribute to a pool of patents set up by the World Health Organization (WHO). That will speed up the manufacture of generic, affordable COVID-19 vaccines and treatments while protecting firms’ incentives to invest in future research."
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Etienne Billette de Villemeur
Professor in Economics, Université de Lille, Lille Economie et Management (LEM)
Chaire Toussaint Louverture en Haïti.
Vianney DequiedtProfessor in Economics, Université Clermont Auvergne, CERDI
Scientific coordinator of the Labex IDGM+ (Initiative pour le Développement et la Gouvernance Mondiale)
Bruno Versaevel
Professor in Economics, EMLyon Business School, Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE)