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The Proposed TRIPS Compromise Risks Setting Several Bad Precedents

Bill of Health

The proposed compromise would allow for “the use of patented subject matter required for the production and supply of COVID-19 vaccines without the consent of the right holder to the extent necessary to address the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with the provisions of Article 31 of the Agreement, as clarified and waived.”

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary 3 | Monthly Update 2021

SQA

Commission Extends Transparency and Authorization Mechanism for Exports of COVID-19 Vaccines, 11 March 2021. The EC has extended until the end of June 2021 the transparency and authorization mechanism for COVID-19 vaccine exports. The EU continues to be the leading provider of vaccines around the world.

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Against American Public Health Exceptionalism

Bill of Health

After 2,977 people were murdered on September 11, 2001, Congress started a war and revised the country’s approach to policing, surveillance, and national security within six weeks; it opened a new federal agency and commissioned a bipartisan fact-finding panel within 14 months….

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

How did we get here? Nonprofit hospitals under growing scrutiny over how they justify billions in tax breaks States increase pressure on nonprofit hospitals as charity care scrutinized Senate proposal would give hospitals $385M for emergency preparedness. to 18 central Mass. nonprofits MICHIGAN Ascension St.

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A Texas Mess

Drug & Device Law

So we do have comments on the bizarre complaint that the Texas attorney general recently filed over COVID-19. The complaint, brought under the Texas consumer protection statute, sued a major manufacturer of COVID-19 vaccine that was used to control the recent pandemic. The suit “relates to” – at least – “the. . .