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If you actually want that, then you need some kind of megaproject to build vaccine factories to supply the entire world and to distribute them to the whole worl
by zarzavat 5y ago
If you actually want that, then you need some kind of megaproject to build vaccine factories to supply the entire world and to distribute them to the whole world's population. This virus doesn't respect borders.
- monocasa 5y agoYes in fact, that's the core of what a lot of people have been wanting by trying to get an IP waiver from the WTO. You don't even need new factories, as there's tons of factories out there that are itching to make the various vaccines.
- vimy 5y agoIt was my understanding that the developing world doesn’t have the required infrastructure nor qualified workers to manufacture the complex covid vaccines. So the whole patent point is moot.
- monocasa 5y agoYour understanding is incorrect, hence the ongoing process for the WTO waiver. Even the mRNA vaccines aren't that crazy, it's a culture of e. coli that's been genetically engineered to produce the vaccines; the manufacturing steps themselves are pretty run of the mill bio reactor stuff with slightly more stringent temperature controls on the tail end. The non mRNA vaccines are pretty much equivalent to any other standard vaccine.
- hcurtiss 5y agoWith an IP waiver, you make it less likely you'll have a vaccine for the next one, defeating the entire purpose.
- monocasa 5y agoNo you don't; the vaccines were funded almost entirely with public money anyway.
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- shaklee3 5y agoThis has already happened. There's a world organization distributing millions of vaccines, and soon billions.