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The biggest hurdle to getting more vaccine manufacturing capacity online is probably the hysteria around "China might steal our vaccine technology!!!!". There
by janekm 5y ago
The biggest hurdle to getting more vaccine manufacturing capacity online is probably the hysteria around "China might steal our vaccine technology!!!!".
There is no other country with the experience of rapidly scaling up manufacturing supply chains. But in the case of these vaccines, especially the mRNA ones, very hard to do without exact specifications of the microfluidics and process parameters needed.
- kmeisthax 5y agoPatent & copyright nationalism is one hell of a drug. China stealing our vaccine technology has got to be the least convincing threat I've seen. So what if they do? What are they going to do with it? Cure diseases?
- janekm 5y agoIndeed, how dare they! https://www.ft.com/content/fa1e0d22-71f2-401f-9971-fa27313570ab https://www.ft.com/content/fa1e0d22-71f2-401f-9971-fa2731357... ("Vaccine makers say IP waiver could hand technology to China and Russia")