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The Proposed TRIPS Compromise Risks Setting Several Bad Precedents

Bill of Health

On March 15, 2022, STAT published text of a proposed compromise at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily relax global standards for intellectual property for COVID-19. In short, the compromise only waives a single 20-word paragraph in one article: the one dealing with exports under a non-voluntary authorization.

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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

In fact, the most striking similarity between our failed public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the drug overdose crisis is our resolute refusal to learn from our mistakes and the rest of the world and make overdue adjustments. Just as COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. While the U.S.

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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. . .