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Vaccine patent waiver breaks faith with American companies, stifles innovation

May 13, 2021

NCBIO is extremely disappointed that the Biden administration has chosen to support waiving critical intellectual property protections for U.S. COVID-19 vaccines. This decision, known as a TRIPS waiver, breaks faith with American innovators, punishes the ingenuity of our life sciences industry and will delay the equitable delivery of COVID vaccines to people around the globe.    …

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BIO: Why the TRIPS waiver wouldn’t work

April 20, 2021

BIO President and CEO Dr. Michelle McMurry-Heath sent a letter April 19 to U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai to explain why the WTO’s proposed “TRIPS waiver” would have global health and economic consequences as the pandemic rages on.

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Executive order on drug prices does no favors for NC patients, hospitals

November 25, 2020

A new executive order that slashes Medicare payments to hospitals and physicians for certain medicines will hurt patients’ access to care and financially stress already overburdened hospitals and innovation-based pharmaceutical companies

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