The White House on Thursday announced it is licensing COVID-19 technologies to the World Health Organization to enable global manufacturers to make COVID-19 shots and increase testing capability.<\/p>\n
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Through the National Institute of Health (NIH), the White House said it licensed \u201cresearch tools and the intellectual property\u201d for several COVID-19 technologies to the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), a U.N.-backed initiative that seeks to bring medical innovations to low and middle-income countries.<\/p>\n
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These technologies include the stabilized spike protein used in many coronavirus vaccines. The spike protein is found on the surface of the COVID-19 virus. When administered, the spike protein induces an immune response that teaches the immune system to fend off an actual infection.<\/p>\n
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In his remarks at the second Global COVID-19 Summit on Thursday, President\u00a0Biden\u00a0touched on the technology sharing as part of \u201csignificant new commitments to help keep up the fight against COVID-19 in 2022, protect the most vulnerable populations and prepare for the next health crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The WHO said in a statement that 11 technologies from the U.S. were being licensed as part of this agreement. Apart from the spike protein, also included were diagnostic technologies, early stage COVID-19 vaccine candidates and research tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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