So here's the unambiguous version of my original question: Why are we guessing about trade secrets in a pandemic? Seems to me that an advanced society would h

So here's the unambiguous version of my original question: Why are we guessing about trade secrets in a pandemic? Seems to me that an advanced society would have the sense to say that while trade secrets are obviously an important part of the economy, in the case of a global pandemic we can suspend them specifically for the design specs of the bottleneck in vaccine production.