> If the next pandemic is even more serious than the current one … … than Bill Gates is absolutely right, and your positition of invalidating pharmaceutical pa

> If the next pandemic is even more serious than the current one … … than Bill Gates is absolutely right, and your positition of invalidating pharmaceutical patents would not only just be moral grandstanding, but stupidly harmful. 1. Hundreds of pharmaceutical companies tried to develop a vaccine and how many succedded? It is a big bet which can be lost, and we need many players in the game competing to win the big prize. 2. The vaccines turned out to be differently effective and furthermore different for the variants. J&J was good for the original Covid-19, not for Delta. 3. The capital and drive necessary for ramping up production and the complex supply chain is massive plus timing in the pandemic is essential. Can underdeveloped countries pump out hundreds of millions of doses cheaper than Pfizer/Moderna? I highly doubt it. Capitalism and the market economy made both very cheap (AstraZeneca with under $5) and very best vaccines (Pfizer/Moderna with $20 a dose). This was the winning system! Why throw it away? The pandemic cost trillions in world GDP, the cost big pharma is profiting from the well earned solution is a trifle compared. I would be all for rich countries subsidizing poorer ones, the pandemic was a global problem, but don't throw the baby out with the bath water.