Of patents and power: "Doses are charity. Knowledge is justice"

A conversation with advocates for global vaccine access about drug patents, activism, Big Pharma, and more

Recently the plague descended on my extended family back in India — and on my wife’s, too. We were not atypical. It began to be said that few Indian families were spared the Covid crisis. And the crisis has revived a subject that I’ve reported on in the past and care deeply about: that of drug patents and poor countries.

Patents are temporary monopolies …