The Biden administration will share U.S. government-devised coronavirus technologies with the World Health Organization, a policy shift intended to allow other countries to replicate some scientific breakthroughs and better fight the pandemic abroad
The United States will share some coronavirus technologies it developed with the World Health Organization. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse//File Photo technologies with the World Health Organization,
The policy is not intended to apply to the vaccines and therapeutics that have been developed by private companies and are currently in the U.S. market, the people said.The United States is not expected to share NIH-developed technology that was used by Moderna, the vaccine maker that worked closely with the U.S. government in its messenger RNA vaccine. Foreign countries and developers have
The Biden administration’s plan will be announced Thursday morning by Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra at an event that he is hosting with foreign health ministers, the people said.WHO, dozens of foreign countries and public health advocates have spent nearly two years urging the United States and other wealthy nations to share the technologies linked with their coronavirus vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics.
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