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Why not share the knowledge make the vaccine in all three countries? AFAIK for the last 2-3 days EU and US are partners again, not enemies.
by romanovcode 6y ago
Why not share the knowledge make the vaccine in all three countries? AFAIK for the last 2-3 days EU and US are partners again, not enemies.
- bluGill 6y agoI would assume that the countries are the only ones with a factory that is capable of making this. Give me a few billion dollars and a year and I can set up another factory, but it would have been too risky an investment 1 year ago (before COVID), or even 3 months ago . Even now it is too risky an investment as the current factories can produce a lot of vaccine, and there are other candidates that also have factories, so odds are the world will be vaccinated before my 1 year factory comes online. A 1 year factory build is extremely fast - freely trading money for time. A more reasonable schedule would be several years (a lot cheaper)
- funcDropShadow 6y agoDidn't Bill Gates' foundation invest 6-7 billion dollars in manufactoring capabilities for vaccines this spring?
- bluGill 6y agoI think he cares about cost effective. He is expecting more than a year to get them running, but in return he can get far more vaccine. He has been working for years on getting various vaccines and has a good idea what the long game is by now.