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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and that could be used to develop other shots in the future.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Leave it to medicine to patent life saving technology instead of putting it out there for the general good of everyone.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Here is an article from 2021 that has a network analysis of how vaccine patents are licensed between pharmaceutical companies. Licensed patents are still better than nothing.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-00912-9