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Brook K. Baker

Professor Baker teaches disability discrimination law, negotiations and a new course on human rights, intellectual property, and access to medicines.

(Unless South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine uptake improves soon, the country will be saddled with well over seven million expiring doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine by July — with nobody to offload them onto. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A dummy’s guide to how trade rules affect access to vaccines

It’s already become apparent that there is gross inequality playing out in the procurement and distribution of the new drugs. Why is that?

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Brook K. Baker