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How Many People Will Patent Monopolies Kill in This Pandemic?
- vikramkr 6y agoHow many people will be saved? If a single person's life is saved by remdesivir ot any of the drugs commercialize by the private sector, that's a life that will have been saved because of patent incentives. If a single person's life is saved by modernas vaccine or J&Js vaccine or any of the others, those are lives that will have been saved because patents made the investment into those technologies by the private sector possible. We dont have a model right mow that works better than the public/private hybrid model we have right now where both the public sector through the NIH etc and the private sector through biotech and pharma work together to develop new innovations and save lives. Cut either of those two out and the system collapses. Cut taxes and the public side, basic research and preclinical through the NIH and the very important regulatory role by the FDA, collapses. Cut patent monopolies and the private sector work, pre clinical development and clinical trials and manufacturing and distribution and drug discovery, collapses.
- hackeraccount 6y agoI'm not a huge fan of patents. I'm really not a huge fan of copyright. This is exactly the right question to ask though. Ignoring "How many people will be saved [because of copyrights]?" doesn't do anyone any good.