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NIH to help get COVID-19 tech pool closer to critical mass 

After a slow start, WHO’s C-TAP is gaining momentum

March 5, 2022 1:49 AM UTC

NIH will offer therapeutics, vaccines and diagnostic methods to the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool, which could help the initiative achieve a critical mass of COVID-19 countermeasures beyond its current portfolio of two antiviral drugs and a single diagnostic test.

Launched in May 2020 with the support of 30 countries and several international partners and institutions, the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) seeks to amass data, knowledge and IP for COVID-19 countermeasures to be shared equitably around the globe. ...