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Wasn't Moderna funded by taxpayer money? If so shouldn't they be obligated to share the recipe?
by jsisto 5y ago
Wasn't Moderna funded by taxpayer money? If so shouldn't they be obligated to share the recipe?
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- asadlionpk 5y agoThat wasn't part of the deal.
- redisman 5y agoSocialized losses, private gains
- mensetmanusman 5y agoThis approach was tried in the past century, and what ends up happening is a bunch of IP paperwork but no one willing to do the work. It’s an interesting tragedy of the commons in terms of the game theory. Otherwise, the person that figures out the hard work of scale up is the only one that doesn’t benefit, because the only winner is the fast follower. Governments don’t work nights and weekend to scale industrial supply chains (hint: because they can print money).
- yboris 5y agoAn promising approach to solving these problems comes from Health Impact Fund which aims to "Delink the price of drugs from the cost of research." https://healthimpactfund.org/en/ https://healthimpactfund.org/en/
- thatguy0900 5y agoGovernments were willing to drop billions on this. Is that really not enough? How much would they need as a one time payment to be worth it?
- mensetmanusman 5y agoMaybe the concern was that governments were going to invest billions into creating competitors that don’t exist today. Moderna would be a small biotech company were it not for covid…
- bitcurious 5y agoIt was funded by US taxpayer money, and therefore the US had and has priority access to the vaccine.
- khuey 5y agoThey were funded by US taxpayer money. How does that create obligations to the people of South Africa?
- chaostheory 5y agoYes. Development of its vaccine started in 2018 when we lifted the gain of function moratorium during the Trump administration.
- collegeburner 5y agoWith Americans maybe. $0 from South African taxpayer money went to fund it, South Africa (and every other country) has 0 rights to it and get nothing. They pay if they want access.