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    WHO director-general endorses a voluntary intellectual property pool to develop Covid-19 products

    The WHO's director-general has endorsed a voluntary intellectual property pool to develop #Covid19 products.
    by Ed Silverman Apr 06, 2020 2 minutes
    WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

    Amid the race to find a salve for Covid-19, the World Health Organization director-general has endorsed the idea of creating a voluntary pool to collect patent rights, regulatory test data, and other information that could be shared for developing drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics.

    The concept was two weeks ago by Costa Rican government officials amid mounting concerns that some Covid-19 medical products

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