![‘This Summit Was a Failure’: Biden-Merkel Meeting Ends With No Deal on Vaccine Patent Waiver ‘This Summit Was a Failure’: Biden-Merkel Meeting Ends With No Deal on Vaccine Patent Waiver](https://realnews.today/media/biden-merkel-summit-3600x2400-1-310x168.jpg)
The brief bilateral summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel ended Thursday without any commitment from the European leader to drop her opposition to a temporary patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines, a result that public health campaigners dubbed a major failure as infections continue to surge across the globe.