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Since this felt like a highly non-credible story to me (because how on earth would this not get funding for a Phase 3 study?), I searched for some corroboration

Since this felt like a highly non-credible story to me (because how on earth would this not get funding for a Phase 3 study?), I searched for some corroboration, preferably from a few months ago. And there is some: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finnish-developed_open-source_coronavirus_vaccine_nearly_ready_for_testing/11342151 https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finnish-developed_open-so... https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/18270-finnish-covid-19-vaccine-yielding-promising-results-but-lacks-funding.html https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/1...

kakoni 6y ago
Here is recent article (in Finnish) about their funding problems (https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/3181d8ce-19ce-4d41-a214-5bab78e292a9 https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/3181d8ce-19ce-4d41-a21...) Tldr; Seems that Finnish government doesn’t have means or/and will to fund these sort of developments (especially if it’s open source) Kinda sad when at the time Helsinki regions hospital district decided to renew its EHR system into American Epic. Project is estimated to cost 1 billion usd.