>But still, to put it in terms you might better understand, why do you think that medical devices take years to design and develop and get to the market? Becau

>But still, to put it in terms you might better understand, why do you think that medical devices take years to design and develop and get to the market? Because of insane regulatory hurdles, and a refusal to adopt standards accepted by other nations' comparable regulatory agencies? See, for example, KN95 masks. Or for a non-coronavirus example, look at how slow the FDA has been to approve SLIT immunotherapy methods for allergy treatment, despite European agencies having approved them for decades. Which results in Americans seeking allergy immunotherapy to either get off-label prescriptions for SLIT therapy, or they have to get the much more expensive injections that require multiple visits a week to a doctor's office and supervision by trained (and therefore expensive) professionals.