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Who owns vaccines?
Covid vaccine nationalism is showing us that our intellectual property system is broken
By
Miriam Brett
19 July 2021
This is an article from the third issue of the New Economics Zine. You can read the full issue here
Over recent months, talk of ‘vaccine nationalism’ — where wealthy governments work to secure deals for vaccination supplies while many poorer countries are effectively denied equitable access — has grown. Indeed, while the speed at which the vaccines themselves have been developed is incredible, their