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The most efficient vaccine should be put under the public domain, and its production liberalized in every country. Market and private propriety here are not eff
by kome 6y ago
The most efficient vaccine should be put under the public domain, and its production liberalized in every country. Market and private propriety here are not efficient.
- maelito 6y agoWhy don't we talk more about this ? How many deaths could be avoided ?
- curiousgal 6y agoThese last few weeks have opened my eyes to how hypocritical the world is. Last year everyone was up in arms about mask production being centralized in China and every country was calling for domestic production. Now, with the vaccine being made by 3 or 4 companies, everyone is like "oh we can't get the doses we paid for? It's okay we'll wait". Including the EU so this isn't a matter of just "masks are easier to manufacture locally than vaccines".
- macspoofing 6y ago>Including the EU so this isn't a matter of just "masks are easier to manufacture locally than vaccines". But masks are easier to manufacture locally than vaccines. And context is important too. Had there been no patents, are we sure the private investments would have been made 10+ years ago to developed COVID-19 vaccines in record time this year?
- em500 6y agoMaybe we don't talk more about this because nobody here has deep insights into the current vaccine production chains (and therefor into the actual bottle necks), so we have no clue how many deaths could be avoided?
- rebuilder 6y agoNow or when the next pandemic hits? Suspend patents now, better be prepared to develop the next vaccines without private pharma. Then again, maybe that would work out just fine. I doubt it would be unproblematic, either.
- Neil44 6y agoAZ/Oxford is not for profit and is being licensed out around the world. That is why this South Africa trial result is disappointing. Not getting into the point about the efficiency of state run utilities.
- dageshi 6y agoIf you do this, who will develop a vaccine and more importantly TEST it at all? Private corporations won't, governments would have too and governments would develop in private, evaluate in private and give it to their own citizens, vaccines would become state secrets. I swear, in the morning of Europe timezones you get these pointless "just make everything free man" comments. I'm starting to think they're trolls or bots.
- rebuilder 6y agoThis argument that patent protections should be suspended has been made quite seriously in several newspapers here in Finland. I don't think these people are trolling. I do share the reservations about retroactively revoking protections, although I'm not convinced governments could not co-operate on vaccine development.
- Ulrich2 6y agoIf the state (any state) would decide on this, we would have not any mRna vaccines because "obviously this new thing will not work and/or is too risky".. Remember that just a year ago the AZ vaccine was the clear front runner. That is also one of the reasons why the EU did not order enough/too late of Biontech.
- partingshots 6y agoNot true. Biontech and Moderna were always far ahead of everyone else even at the very start.
- konschubert 6y agoI don't know man. When WW2 started, companies in the US were forced to join the war effort and it did not end capitalism.
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- bluGill 6y agoThat wouldn't make any difference. The hard part isn't the recipe for producing it, the hard part is making all the equipment to produce it - all along the entire supply chain.