"A $5 billion a year budget can go very far and the people should get the rewards for taking the risk, especially for a disease like HIV that has significant qu

"A $5 billion a year budget can go very far and the people should get the rewards for taking the risk, especially for a disease like HIV that has significant quality of life impacts on vulnerable populations." This requires the starting axiom that profits are more important than human lives with respect to global public health. This is something that we as humans can decide, not some law of nature. Big pharma's lobbying to enshrine IP rights by embedding them in the WTO has led to untold deaths from lack of access to medications in the developing world. This Citations Needed podcast on "Vaccine Apartheid" contains much interesting information, even if you don't agree with the headline. https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-129-vaccine-apartheid-us-medias-uncritical-adoption-of-racist-intellectual-property-b7fed9e288e6 https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-129-vaccine-apart... On a purely technical note, it's interesting to think about why it's cheaper to do the R&D to put a rocket into orbit than to develop a new therapy. Why does cutting-edge lab equipment cost $100k - $1M? This supply chain seems ripe for disruption.