Global ‘pandemic treaty’: nations wrestle with how to fairly share virus data (Nature)

Nature: Global ‘pandemic treaty’: nations wrestle with how to fairly share virus data. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers in countries from Brazil to South Africa to India kept tabs on how SARS-CoV-2 was evolving by determining the genetic sequences of viruses collected from infected people. They then uploaded those sequences to online data-sharing platforms, enabling the development of vaccines. But many of the countries that uploaded sequences were slow to receive the shots, if they got them at all. This disconnect sets up a situation in which disease-affected countries might one day decide to keep information to themselves — an outcome that could be disastrous globally.”