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That same beast produced a vaccine to Covid-19 in merely two days. I believe all but one of the major vaccines to the virus come from the USA. The machine is al
by hokumguru 6y ago
That same beast produced a vaccine to Covid-19 in merely two days. I believe all but one of the major vaccines to the virus come from the USA. The machine is all-consuming but it surely doesn't all go to waste.
- symlinkk 6y agoYou could point to anything and say “look! it did something good!” but that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved upon.
- sitic 6y agoWhich vaccine would that be? The Pfizer one was developed by BioNTech in Germany (it's also produced by Fosun Pharma for China), the Johnson & Johnson one was developed by their Belgian subsidiary Janssen. I think only the Moderna (NIAID) and Novavax are truly "US-developed" vaccines. The AstraZeneca one was developed in the UK, Sputnik V by Russia, and CureVac is German. Besides, I don't think patient-healthcare spending (where the US is spending an additional 5-8% of GDP) affects that or where they were developed.
- relaxing 6y agoThat’s not remotely true. Even of the two RNA vaccines, Pfizer-BioNTech was developed in Germany. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine was developed in the Netherlands. Oxford-AstraZeneca is a UK product. And China, India and Russia each have multiple vaccines approved.
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