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I'm surprised Pfizer or pharmaceutical industry in general, didn't get Time Person of the Year - development of COVID vaccines in record time is BY FAR the most

I'm surprised Pfizer or pharmaceutical industry in general, didn't get Time Person of the Year - development of COVID vaccines in record time is BY FAR the most consequential action in this crazy year, perhaps this century.

input_sh 6y ago
Who cares? Time is pretty irrelevant as a magazine, not even in the top 10 by distribution in the United States. Gamestop's Game Informer has almost 3x the circulation, and I'm pretty the majority of the people here don't really care about either of them.
- nceqs3 6y ago
  Time is owned by Mark Benioff lol.
jariel 6y ago
The BioNTech team who made the vaccine probably should get a lot of public 'credit'.
fnord77 6y ago
the hard, pioneering work was done by the NIH and universities. Pharma refined it, applied it to covid and creating the distribution infrastructure
- macspoofing 6y ago
  Yes, I have no doubt that that preliminary research in part or wholly originated from universities. Big Pharma should get this recognition anyway because as you said: "Pharma refined it, applied it to covid and creating the distribution infrastructure" Don't worry though. Time would never give this award to Big Pharma, as evidenced by the fact they gave it to Biden/Harris, one of the most milquetoast tickets in recent history, in a year where the first big pandemic in a century is ravaging the world. I'm also surprised they didn't go down the feel-good route of giving it to frontline healthcare workers, but Trump is a bigger deal, apparently.
rossdavidh 6y ago
I'm not sure that we should give that kind of credit until we see which (if any) vaccine gets manufactured and distributed and is successful in quantity, before the virus has infected the majority of the population. I sure hope they do, but at the current rate of spread in Europe and the Americas, it is not totally implausible that they won't be able to make it in quantity until it's too late to have an impact on this pandemic. Which would not be a reason not to have made it (we would want it for the future), but it's still rather early to say how much impact this vaccine will have. There is also the possibility that some other vaccine will be able to roll out doses for 300 million people before this one has successfully made doses for 10 million. I'm not saying that's likely, but it's certainly within the plausible range of possibilities.
Triv888 6y ago
It doesn't mean much more, but how about a nobel prize?
- valarauko 6y ago
  A Nobel Prize will definitely follow, once the Pandemic dies down. My guess is that the Nobel Commitee would recognize the leading vaccines deployed worldwide, not just Biontech.

input_sh 6y ago

Who cares? Time is pretty irrelevant as a magazine, not even in the top 10 by distribution in the United States. Gamestop's Game Informer has almost 3x the circulation, and I'm pretty the majority of the people here don't really care about either of them.

nceqs3 6y ago
Time is owned by Mark Benioff lol.

jariel 6y ago

The BioNTech team who made the vaccine probably should get a lot of public 'credit'.

fnord77 6y ago

the hard, pioneering work was done by the NIH and universities. Pharma refined it, applied it to covid and creating the distribution infrastructure

macspoofing 6y ago
Yes, I have no doubt that that preliminary research in part or wholly originated from universities. Big Pharma should get this recognition anyway because as you said: "Pharma refined it, applied it to covid and creating the distribution infrastructure" Don't worry though. Time would never give this award to Big Pharma, as evidenced by the fact they gave it to Biden/Harris, one of the most milquetoast tickets in recent history, in a year where the first big pandemic in a century is ravaging the world. I'm also surprised they didn't go down the feel-good route of giving it to frontline healthcare workers, but Trump is a bigger deal, apparently.

rossdavidh 6y ago

I'm not sure that we should give that kind of credit until we see which (if any) vaccine gets manufactured and distributed and is successful in quantity, before the virus has infected the majority of the population. I sure hope they do, but at the current rate of spread in Europe and the Americas, it is not totally implausible that they won't be able to make it in quantity until it's too late to have an impact on this pandemic. Which would not be a reason not to have made it (we would want it for the future), but it's still rather early to say how much impact this vaccine will have. There is also the possibility that some other vaccine will be able to roll out doses for 300 million people before this one has successfully made doses for 10 million. I'm not saying that's likely, but it's certainly within the plausible range of possibilities.

Triv888 6y ago

It doesn't mean much more, but how about a nobel prize?

valarauko 6y ago
A Nobel Prize will definitely follow, once the Pandemic dies down. My guess is that the Nobel Commitee would recognize the leading vaccines deployed worldwide, not just Biontech.