Is there some legit concern that giving up MRNA could lead to a bio-weapon? That’s the only thing I could think of for a reason not to give mrna to countries like maybe north korea or iran. But that’s about it.
I don’t think that is really the concern. They can just get some vaccine and reverse engineer it if they wanted to try to make bioweapons out of it. And a lot of the research on this is published anyway. So the mRNA sequence used and the lipid delivery system aren’t exactly secrets.
But there is no money in trying to re-invent the wheel (or, I guess, copy it) if the WTO is going to come down on you for violations of IP law.
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