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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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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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COVID-19: An integrated healthcare system is the way forward

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Government & Policy Network Infrastructure Telehealth Workflow With dozens of healthcare facilities across the UAE, the country’s healthcare system is evolving faster than elsewhere in the world says Christian Schuhmacher, CEO of King’s College Hospital London in Dubai. Coordinated efforts in the face of COVID-19.

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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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A Blueprint for Solving the U.S. Nursing Shortage Crisis

HIT Consultant

A nursing shortage, exacerbated by the COVID pandemic, has been fueled largely by high levels of moral distress, politicization, and lack of support. Enabling nurses to practice at the top of their licenses. The effort resulted in safer staffing ratios, 170+ new job positions, and a 19% wage increase.

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Building a Culture of Patient Safety Starts with Reducing Staff Burnout

AIHC

From a global perspective, the World Health Organization states that patient safety is defined as “the absence of preventable harm to a patient and reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum." Is Burnout a Still Problem Now that COVID-19 is Behind Us?

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

Bill of Health

By December 2020, the world had astonishingly powerful tools against COVID-19. Consider the United States, for example, which made the unprecedented move to leave the World Health Organization (WHO) during the pandemic. By Zain Rizvi. reached the one million death mark.