The world is desperate for more Covid vaccine - patents shouldn't get in the way
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/24/covid-vaccines-pat...
"Allowing big pharma to handle business as usual will work out for just a rich few. Biolyse is a small manufacturer in Canada with a simple proposition: provide a recipe for a coronavirus vaccine, and it will produce 20m doses for nations in the global south.
It has approached AstraZeneca and Johnson&Johnson, and even asked the Canadian government to help it with compulsory licensing - which would given it the authorisation to produce another company's patented produce for emergency use - but so far no one has taken up its offer..."