COVID-19 treatments such as Pfizer’s Paxlovid or Merck’s Molnupiravir remain undersupplied globally. Prashant Yadav (CGD, INSEAD) joins to describe how companies so far have shared their intellectual property through the Medicines Patent Pool and what else is needed to unlock global production bottlenecks (42:04).
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