Intellectual property --- My understanding of intellectual property is to provide an advantage to someone who invested resources in developing an innovation (thus the risk and financial burden of R&D). The research on COVID vaccines was actually funded by governments, without any guarantee of success. It means that governments took the full risk and paid upfront without knowing what would be the result. It is unacceptable that pharma companies now make profit off the vaccines. In this case, patents should be waived as it is not the raison d'être of intellectual property.

Source author: Samir Yeddes samir.yeddes@eda.admin.ch