Laura López González is a freelance health journalist and editor with 15 years of experience covering health in the global south from Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work has appeared in outlets such as Al Jazeera, the Guardian, and El Pais.
Moderna holds far-reaching patents on mRNA technology in South Africa that could block future mRNA innovations from ever coming to market in the country that helped birth them.
"We want to believe ... that what we’re measuring is valuable in preparing for a pandemic," says the co-author of an upcoming study, but COVID-19 "has shown maybe that’s not the case."
