Great point!
Note the cruel irony that the week before the WHO conference when Biden announced waiving Intellectual Property for vaccine to be available to WHO nations, oops?! Shut down. Whole conference cancelled.
If IP had not stood in the way the vaccine could have been much more widely distributed and locally sourced.
For the paranoid consider this: Would you take a Russian or Chinese vaccine? Think other folks would have similar reservations about a USA made option?
With the lives at stake I think IP should be set aside and tech shared in the name of love and peace and stuff like that.