On May 5, the US government decided to throw its weight behind an increasingly-popular WTO measure: waiving intellectual property protections for COVID vaccines. But what is this waiver? And what could it actually mean for people looking to get inoculated? We explain how seemingly-arcane trade negotiations came to mean life and death for the billions of people waiting on a vaccine. 




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Public health activists Achal Prabhala of accessibsa and Priti Krishtel @pritikrishtel of I-MAK @IMAKglobal.




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On May 5, the US government decided to throw its weight behind an increasingly-popular WTO measure: waiving intellectual property protections for COVID vaccines. But what is this waiver? And what could it actually mean for people looking to get inoculated? We explain how seemingly-arcane trade negotiations came to mean life and death for the billions of people waiting on a vaccine.&nbsp; In this episode:Public health activists Achal Prabhala of accessibsa and Priti Krishtel <a href="https://twitter.com/pritikrishtel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pritikrishtel</a> of I-MAK <a href="https://twitter.com/IMAKglobal" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@IMAKglobal</a>. Connect with The Take:&nbsp;Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/AJTheTake" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AJTheTake</a>), Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ajthetake/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ajthetake</a>) and Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheTakePod/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@TheTakePod</a>)

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