Yes? 10 billion vaccine doses that cost $100 each would be a trillion dollars. Which is somewhere between 7% and 25% of the total cost of COVID-19 to the US. T

Yes? 10 billion vaccine doses that cost $100 each would be a trillion dollars. Which is somewhere between 7% and 25% of the total cost of COVID-19 to the US. The real question is whether we can afford to use our non-emergency drug approval process in a time of crisis. This time the answer is probably "yes, and it probably only cost a few tens of thousands of lives and a few trillion dollars" but if the disease in question had been Ebola instead of COVID I worry that we would have seen the same ineffective response that optimizes for minimizing liability instead of maximizing effectiveness.