To all witnesses, it seems that a very clear theme is coming up. We're allowing a handful of private, multinational corporations in the world to control the production of a vaccine that is needed by seven billion people around the world.
Given that most of the development of the vaccine was financed publicly rather than through risk capital, does anybody disagree that we should be temporarily changing the way that we protect intellectual property so that every country can produce vaccines by making the technology and the intellectual property globally and publicly accessible? Does anybody think that's a bad idea?