On a much more systemic level, the whole global patent and intellectual property system worked to ensure that countries who would have been able to create vacci

On a much more systemic level, the whole global patent and intellectual property system worked to ensure that countries who would have been able to create vaccines themselves instead had to rely on ordering vaccines from the few companies with the IP rights, drastically limiting vaccine rollout. Literally putting corporate profit above the lives of millions and the well-being of billions.