Pfizer briefed Irish politicians against waiver of patents on Covid vaccines

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Pfizer briefed Irish politicians against the idea of temporarily scrapping intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines during global discussions about how to help poorer countries access the lifesaving medicines.

Letters show the pharmaceutical giant wrote to Irish politicians arguing that countries with lower vaccine uptake – mostly those in the

global south – were struggling more with an “excess supply of vaccine” than with their inability to make their own vaccines due to IP licensing ...

 

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