United States supports waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Wednesday.These extraordinary times and circumstances of call for extraordinary measures.
The US supports the waiver of IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines to help end the pandemic and we’ll actively participate in @WTO negotiations to make that happen.
pic.twitter.com/96ERlboZS8— Ambassador Katherine Tai (@AmbassadorTai) May 5, 2021“This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures,” the statement posted to Twitter reads.