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US to launch trade talks on COVID-19 vaccine distribution

by Darlene Superville
| May 2, 2021 12:30 PM

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The U.S. top trade negotiator will begin talks with the World Trade Organization on ways to overcome intellectual property issues that are keeping critically needed COVID-19 vaccines from being more widely distributed worldwide, two White House officials said Sunday.

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