The wealthy countries seem to be converging on agreement to temporarily waive patent obstacles to producing and distributing generic Covid-19 vaccines, but not the trade secrecy. And this excludes tests and treatments.

Not making an exception to the trade secrecy would mean that the would-be generic producers would have to repeat the development of production processes.

As long as we respect and tolerate the propaganda and confusion term "intellectual property", the world will continue to bow down to the Big Pharma companies. We should fund medical research and development in a way that doesn't leave us stuck with monopolies that interfere with use of the results.