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4 June 2020AmericasSarah Morgan

Big pharma pushes back against WHO patent pool

The leaders of some of the world’s largest pharma companies appear to be resistant to a  World Health Organization (WHO) voluntary pool aimed at making vaccines, tests, treatments and other health technologies to fight COVID-19 accessible to all.

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