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It’s fun to shit on Big Pharma but this isn’t true. Pfizer specifically rejected government funding. It did so because it didn’t want to be dragged into bureau
by tyre 6y ago
It’s fun to shit on Big Pharma but this isn’t true.
Pfizer specifically rejected government funding. It did so because it didn’t want to be dragged into bureaucracy.
- morsch 6y agoBiontech, Pfizer's research partner, received 375 million Euro from the German government. https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/themenseite-forschung/corona-impfstoff-1787044 https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/themenseite-fo...
- Slartie 6y agoThat is true, and likely one of the reasons for that favorable EU deal. But what's also correct is: neither Pfizer nor BioNTech did accept money from the Trump government (except as payment for the finished product once it was approved of course), which is what the OP probably meant. There's a huge difference regarding the potential for politicization between this particular government and any other sane government on this planet, and especially the German one that's currently being led by a trained physicist.