Kolek planning to go pro
What P.1 is doing in Brazil is so incredibly sad and scary.
Agreed. Just devastating. And P.1.1.7 is ravaging France, Poland and several other European countries.
What’s the norm (is there one?) for variant reporting?? My test results just say positive for SARS-CoV-2, but there is no variant info. Minnesota is using Vault Health to test... does the lab they use determine variants & tell the state? Is that a diff process they use to determine variants, and do they only do it on positives?I’m just curious which flavor I have
Which is why we must vaccinate.
Pace is too slow globally. US putting money before lives... like always.
Not sure that's fair.Put on your own oxygen mask before you help others.
The conundrum.... and I am no fan of big Pharma. Developing these vaccines this fast was a vast and expensive undertaking. Yes, the governments are paying them big bucks to make sure that Americans can get these vaccines for free. Even if some are too stupid to get them. I get the whole 'good of humanity' thing. I do. I am a big bleeding heart. But I also get big Pharma not wanting to just give away the intellectual property that they spent billions to develop. I think giving the intellectual property away for the good of humanity is the moral and ethical thing to do. I just don't know that the government can or should compel it.
US taxpayers already footed the bill for the development of mRNA tech. And then also paid pharma to make/distribute vaccine in the US. Pharma has made enough. US citizens have given enough. Let's do the right thing now.
mRNA tech has been under development for a decade. All the government did was foot the bill to tailor it to COVID. Which was incredibly important. But you are completely mischaracterizing how this technology was developed. I am fine with the government regulating pricing (which they already are) for COVID vaccines and paying to ensure everyone gets one free of charge.Removing IP protections would be unprecedented. The government has also sponsored research from everything to microchips, the internet, and satellite technology. We haven't removed IP protections for any of that. It isn't about "money over people." It is about ensuring we remain the most innovative country in the world.
apples to oranges, my friend. One saves lives, the other simply makes our lives more convenient.
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Big Pharma monopoly? LOLModerna has 1300 employees and revenue of $800 million. BioNTech is about the same. Novovax....less than 800 employees and revenue under $500 million.This is the opposite of Big Pharma. These are small, innovative companies whose existence relies on IP protections. Sure, Pfizer and J&J are big pharma, but the number of players here puts the monopoly thing to rest pretty quickly. The fact that we are even considering punishing pharmaceutical companies by ripping away IP protections after they pretty much single handidly saved our country from hundreds of thousands more deaths and our economy from a depression is insane. Our country is reopening because the current system works. There are the right incentives in place for innovation.