{"id":40274,"date":"2021-05-20T00:31:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2021-05-20\/por-que-suspender-las-patentes-no-solucionara-la-escasez-de-vacunas.html"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:31:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T11:31:37","slug":"suspender-las-patentes-no-resolvera-la-escasez-de-vacunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/suspender-las-patentes-no-resolvera-la-escasez-de-vacunas\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiving patents won&#039;t solve the vaccine shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Un hombre de sonrisa bondadosa llamado Kenneth Chien fue a comer hace 10 a\u00f1os a El Bulli, el famoso restaurante de Ferr\u00e1n Adri\u00e0 en Roses (Girona). Chien, que m\u00e1s tarde cofundar\u00eda la empresa Moderna, recuerda aquel d\u00eda cuando le preguntan por uno de los temas m\u00e1s complejos y espinosos que han saltado en los \u00faltimos meses de pandemia: \u00bfdeben suspenderse las patentes que protegen la propiedad de las vacunas del coronavirus? Chien responde que una patente es como la receta de un plato de <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/noticias\/elbulli\/\">\u201cgastronom\u00eda molecular\u201d en El Bulli<\/a>: \u201cIncluso conociendo todos los ingredientes de la vacuna, esta tecnolog\u00eda es tan nueva y est\u00e1 tan rodeada de secretos industriales que casi nadie podr\u00eda replicarla sin el asesoramiento de las empresas productoras\u201d. Es decir, sin la t\u00e9cnica del cocinero. Tanto \u00e9l como otros expertos explican con datos a EL PA\u00cdS que liberalizar las patentes de las vacunas no resolver\u00e1 su escasez en los pa\u00edses subdesarrollados.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2021-05-20\/por-que-suspender-las-patentes-no-solucionara-la-escasez-de-vacunas.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both supporters and opponents of this measure acknowledge that it will not improve drug availability in the short term. The WHO and developing countries are trying to manufacture their own vaccines.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40328,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40274\/revisions\/40328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}