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COVID-19 vaccines: Open source licensing could keep Big Pharma from making huge profits off taxpayer-funded research

  • Written by Charles M Schweik, Professor of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst
COVID-19 vaccines: Open source licensing could keep Big Pharma from making huge profits off taxpayer-funded researchHow many vaccines will be needed to vaccinate the world against COVID-19?Tetra Images/Getty Images

An international, multi-billion-dollar race is underway to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, and progress is moving at record speed, but with nationalistic,competitive undertones. If and when an effective vaccine is invented, its production will require an...

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