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American individuality works well for inventing vaccines though. Any covid vaccines that have come out of Japan or Taiwan? Japan has a substantial pharmaceutica
by yostrovs 5y ago
American individuality works well for inventing vaccines though. Any covid vaccines that have come out of Japan or Taiwan? Japan has a substantial pharmaceutical industry.
- DocTomoe 5y agoGiven that the majority of vaccines were invented in less-individualistic countries (including not one, but two that were developed in China, the first one from nonindividualistic Russia, and the more innovative ones coming from non-quite-as-individualistic Europe with Germany's Biontech-Pfizer or the british-swedish Astrazeneca), that is not a good argument.
- yostrovs 5y agoThe Chinese and Russian vaccine use well established technologies, nothing particularly new. There's no mRNA vaccines developed in China or Russia or Japan or Taiwan. There's also quite a bit of questioning the effectiveness of Russian and Chinese vaccines.
- fomine3 5y agoJapan especially coldly treated vaccine development, due to historical and ongoing misunderstood issue. https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Japan-depends-on-overseas-vaccines-due-to-30-years-of-inaction https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Japan-depends-... HPV vaccine case: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-hpv-vaccine-study-idUSKBN2050K9 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-hpv-vaccine-study-i...