This essay focuses on the role of patents in relation to a potential global crisis such as an influenza pandemic or … other public health crisis. I argue that patent rights will be largely ignored during an epidemic and that any post … rights as compared with the time frame of an epidemic. Patent rights are only obtained through the typically slow process of …

Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for ….0 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …