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As new coronavirus cases surge across India, calls are growing louder for wealthy countries to loosen intellectual property restrictions

Posted with permission of the Institute for New Economic Thinking: ineteconomics.org,

Also with

• Jayati Ghosh
  • Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Former Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

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As new coronavirus cases surge across India, overwhelming hospitals and crematories, calls are growing louder for wealthy countries to stop hoarding excess supply of COVID-19 vaccines and to loosen intellectual property restrictions preventing more countries from making their own vaccines. Democracy Now! speaks with economist Jayati Ghosh and Congressmember Ro Khanna of California.