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COVID ‘Compromise’ on International IP Underscores Need for New Approach

Bill of Health

It only narrowly modifies compulsory licenses of patents covering COVID vaccines. Moreover, it imposes additional restrictions on use of compulsory licenses. IP on COVID vaccines should be a global public good. This is true not just for COVID, but future pandemics. We need a new approach. What does that mean?

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Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics

Bill of Health

Consider, for instance, the case of COVID-19 vaccines. Even those relying on a new type of vaccine technology, such as mRNA vaccines , resulted from well over a decade of R&D in mRNA vaccinology and used vaccine components that were developed well before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

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Better Health Care Tests, Faster

Healthcare IT Today

Speeding up Test Development We’ve seen with COVID-19 how quickly a virus can evolve and how hard it is to design both tests and vaccinations that accommodate different variants. Virax Biolabs uses data from the World Health Organization and others to develop tests quickly.

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Hospitals and health systems post-pandemic, and how to prepare for future outbreaks

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's been more than a year since the World Health Organization officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Q: Will hospitals' infrastructure and healthcare delivery design needs change post-COVID-19? Vaccine passports are being introduced as a monitoring and preventative response to COVID.

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 public health emergency came to an end on May 11. This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. The end of the PHE means different things for so many different sectors of the healthcare system.

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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

Bill of Health

On October 8, 2020, Moderna, the maker of one of the first mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 and the recipient of billions of dollars of U.S. As a result, it publicly promised that “ while the pandemic continues, Moderna will not enforce our COVID-19 related patents against those making vaccines intended to combat the pandemic.”

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Dept. of Defense Awards Prenosis $4.3M Contract for Early Sepsis Detection

HIT Consultant

. – According to the World Health Organization, more than 11 million people die from sepsis worldwide annually, more than the deaths caused by all cancers combined. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, at least 1.7 Before the COVID-19 pandemic, at least 1.7