> We don't even have to imagine: we had a patent-free vaccine, better than the privately developed ones and available before all those. Yet we chose to get into

> We don't even have to imagine: we had a patent-free vaccine, better than the privately developed ones and available before all those. Yet we chose to get into the mess we are in now, with many states uncapable of providing enough vaccines in time. The vaccine mentioned in the article was developed later than Moderna & Pfitzer, and it’s Adenovirus based, so it’s most likely worse than them, and closer to AZ or J&J. It’s like comparing a paper written about doing online search and a deployed, working on production system. In many cases it’s easy to do a first prototype, but getting it to production - especially with sevurity considerations - is the hard part. (For some things the research cost is high too of course, but here, for mRNA vaccines, the research cost was taken up by private money). I am against patents in general, but the narrative about Covid vaccine patents is just plain dishonest.