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Who Should Decide Who Gets To Make COVID-19 Vaccines?

Who Should Decide Who Gets To Make COVID-19 Vaccines?

Update: 2021-05-22

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There's a worldwide shortage of vaccines but plenty of factories standing by to make them. Why is there such a gap between what we need and what we can make? On this week's episode, we explore the surprisingly wild world of pharmaceutical patent law to understand how our system came to be and how it has shaped the pandemic.

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Who Should Decide Who Gets To Make COVID-19 Vaccines?

Who Should Decide Who Gets To Make COVID-19 Vaccines?

FiveThirtyEight, Anna Rothschild