Covid-19: Vaccines and Medical Equipment Debate
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Lord Fowler
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Covid-19: Vaccines and Medical Equipment
Lord Fowler Excerpts(3 years, 12 months ago)
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Lord Bethell (Con)
My Lords, the question of vaccine intellectual property is a delicate one because, as was mentioned earlier, we rely on the private sector for a lot of funding and research, and for supplying the research. So, we are respectful of intellectual property as a principle. None the less, we are also grateful to vaccine manufacturers that have taken an open-source approach to vaccine intellectual property and have made local manufacturing available, so that there can be an extremely wide distribution of vaccines, including to those in the developing world who would otherwise struggle.
The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)
My Lords, the time allowed for this Question has elapsed.