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The COVID-19 is causing not only deaths and fear but also economic and social harm across the globe Lockdowns, travel restrictions, quarantines, social distancing, and other strict public-health measures are playing their part in delaying the spread of infection, but a safe and potent vaccine, effective therapeutics, point-of-care diagnostics, and other health products are desperately needed because it may not be practically possible for governments to extend these measures for an indefinite period of time On March 23, Costa Rica submitted a proposal to the Director-General of the World Health Organization for the creation of a global pooling mechanism in order to facilitate access to and use of intellectual property, trade-secret know how, regulatory data, cell lines, product blueprints, and other proprietary data for technologies that are useful for the detection, prevention, control and treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic This study critically evaluates Costa Rica’s proposal and endeavours to briefly answer the following questions: Why Costa Rica’s proposal deserves serious consideration? To what extent this proposal addresses some of the key concerns related to the COVID-19? To what extent this proposal is practically feasible?
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