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Biotech companies can create vaccines for new diseases within hours of receiving the source code. Why would pharma pay billions of dollars to get a treatment ap
by jart 5y ago
Biotech companies can create vaccines for new diseases within hours of receiving the source code. Why would pharma pay billions of dollars to get a treatment approved for an old disease zero people have?
- bluGill 5y agoThe rarer the disease the easier it is to get approved. Once approved you can tell doctors can use it for anything, and you can tell doctors what else it "might" work for. Doctors can then buy it for those other things, which they might do. You are supposed to study the other things, but that takes time and a lot more money (to be kind) Note, the above is an over simplification, good enough for discussion, but not for any other use. Those who the above is useful information for already know many finer details of the above, and how it varies from country to country.
- jart 5y agoThat's quite a regulatory hack. Thanks for explaining it to me.
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- Spooky23 5y agoBecause it is a disease which has been weaponized by the United States, United Kingdom and former Soviet Union at a minimum. Not only do diseases escape containment (there was a weaponized Smallpox outbreak in 1971 in the USSR, and Lyme disease is believed to have originated from Plum Island, 2 miles off of Long Island), but there’s a nonzero probability that you’ll have a planned release someday.
- jart 5y agohttps://youtu.be/ozg7gEchjuM?t=152 https://youtu.be/ozg7gEchjuM?t=152
- NaturalPhallacy 5y ago>Lyme disease is believed to have originated from Plum Island, Wait, what?!
- selimthegrim 5y agoNext we're going to be hearing about the Montauk Monster.