With glaring inequities in the supply and distribution of vaccines, the Biden administration has backed a plan to waive intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments. We speak to Dr. Lindsay Newman, Director of Economics & Country Risk from IHS Markit on whether this could provide a solution to help end the pandemic.

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Produced by: Shazana Mokhtar

Presented by: Khoo Hsu Chuang, Philip See

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