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It is not a matter of not willing to share, but a capacity problem. All production is fully bought up. Throwing more money at it won't increase the supply.
by enaaem 5y ago
It is not a matter of not willing to share, but a capacity problem. All production is fully bought up. Throwing more money at it won't increase the supply.
- alsetmusic 5y ago> It is not a matter of not willing to share, but a capacity problem. All production is fully bought up. Throwing more money at it won't increase the supply. This is why we should suspend IP / patent protection and increase production.
- prox 5y agoThat has already happened I think, but creating a new pipeline is hard. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/06/covid-vaccines-what-is-patent-waiving-and-will-it-solve-the-global-shortage https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/06/covid-vaccines...
- T-A 5y agoSuspending IP protection does nothing to increase production capacity.
- jlmorton 5y agoModerna has said for over a year that anyone is free to use their IP. Intellectual property has precisely zero to do with production capacity.
- amluto 5y agoThere’s IP and then there’s IP. If Moderna published their complete protocols, cell lines, etc and allowed any qualified manufacturer to pay $5k/hr to consult with Moderna experts on how exactly to manufacture the vaccine, I wonder if there would be more supply.
- maxerickson 5y agoWhat is stopping us from linearly scaling mRNA vaccine production? If throwing money at it won't help, there should be specific answers to that question.
- ianlevesque 5y agoThe only reasonable counter argument I’ve heard is the lead time on spinning up the new plants. It’s always been throwing money at the problem won’t fix it right now.
- BurningFrog 5y agoAs I understand it, 15 months ago, only experimental batches of mRNA vaccines had ever been produced. Only a few specialists knew how, and industrial production was a hypothetical dream. The ramping up to billions of doses since have gone as fast as is humanly possible, with very little expense or effort spared. Everyone would like it to go even faster, but there are limits to what money can buy. (This is what I've heard. I'm not any kind of insider)
- maxerickson 5y agoSo what specific limit is each company working against right now?
- ipaddr 5y agoIf they invested in building new plants what happens in a few years? Is covid still an issue? Would they need to close the plant because of a lack of need?
- maxerickson 5y agoThat would be fine if that happened.
- cartoonworld 5y agoProbably redeploy the advanced manufacturing capital into other highly desirable state-of-the art biotech.