The Biden administration has agreed to support waiving intellectual property (IP) restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines at the World Trade Organization (WTO), a breakthrough in the global fight against the pandemic that can empower governments to tackle vaccine scarcity and inequity. Given what you have learnt in this class,

1) what is a patent wavier under the WTO system?

2) How a patent waiver resolve a public health crisis?

3) Are you in support of the waiver, why/why not?