Senators Sanders, Warren, and several others, wrote to Biden:

"Your Administration has the opportunity to reverse the damage done by the Trump Administration to our nation’s global reputation and restore America’s public health leadership on the world stage. To bring the pandemic to its quickest end and save the lives of Americans and people around the world, we ask that you prioritize people over pharmaceutical company profits by reversing the Trump position and announcing U.S. support for the WTO TRIPS

waiver."

But then Johnson & Johnson‘s chief IP counsel Robert DeBerardine said a waiver wouldn’t help broaden global vaccine access, likening the free sharing of a vaccine “recipe” to “trying to duplicate” a classic family recipe: “It would never come out right. It wouldn’t taste like Grandma’s cookies,” DeBerardine said.

But then, my Grandma gave her cookies away for free - so should Big Pharma.