other countries, including India, a country which has been recently grappling with the world’s biggest surge of daily COVID-19 infections.
During an interview with Sky News, the tech entrepreneur was asked if any changes in intellectual property law, for instance the sharing of vaccine formula and production techniques with countries other than the US, will be helpful in the current crisis. To the shock of many, Gates responded saying no. He did provide a few vague reasons for his argument, including the fact that there are limited vaccine factories across the world, and that it would not be effective to transfer the technology to countries which do not have the “grants” and “expertise” that the US has.
However, what actually sparked widespread criticism was Gates’ mentioning of India as an example in his comments. “Moving something that had never been done moving a vaccine from say a J&J factory into a factory in India, that, it’s novel,” he said. Contrary to Gates’ views, India is considered to be…
