The COVID-19 is causing not only deaths and fear but also economic and social harm across the globe. Lockdowns, travel restrictions, quarantines, social distancing, and other strict public health measures are playing their part in delaying the spread of infection, but a safe and potent vaccine, effective therapeutics, point-of-care diagnostics, and other health products are desperately needed because it may not be practically possible for governments to extend these measures for an indefinite period of time. On March 23, Costa Rica submitted a proposal to the Director-General of the World Health Organization for the creation of a global pooling mechanism in order to facilitate access to and use of intellectual property, trade-secret know-how, regulatory data, cell lines, product blueprints, and other proprietary data for technologies that are useful for the detection, prevention, control, and treatment of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study critically evaluates Costa Rica’s proposal and endeavors to briefly answer the following questions: Why Costa Rica’s proposal deserves serious consideration? To what extent this proposal addresses some of the key concerns related to the COVID-19? To what extent this proposal is practically feasible?

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对待新颖的COVID-19：为什么哥斯达黎加提出的建立全球共享机制的提议值得认真考虑？

COVID-19不仅造成死亡和恐惧，还给全球造成经济和社会伤害。封锁，旅行限制，隔离，社会隔离和其他严格的公共卫生措施在延迟感染的传播中发挥着作用，但是安全有效的疫苗，有效的治疗方法，即时诊断方法和其他健康产品正处于绝境之所以需要这样做，是因为政府实际上不可能无限期地延长这些措施。3月23日，哥斯达黎加向世界卫生组织总干事提交了一项提案，以建立一个全球共享机制，以促进知识产权和商业秘密知识，监管数据，信息的获取和使用。线，产品蓝图，以及用于COVID-19大流行的检测，预防，控制和治疗的技术的其他专有数据。这项研究批判性地评估了哥斯达黎加的提案，并努力简要回答以下问题：为什么哥斯达黎加的提案值得认真考虑？该提案在多大程度上解决了与COVID-19相关的一些关键问题？该建议在何种程度上切实可行？