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Gates’ shock teams already exist - they’re called pharmaceutical and biotech companies. VC’s already fund them aggressively, so all folks like Gates is doing i
by jleyank 5y ago
Gates’ shock teams already exist - they’re called pharmaceutical and biotech companies. VC’s already fund them aggressively, so all folks like Gates is doing is pushing the news and funding openly. Teams scouring dirt across the world looking for the next bacteria and antibiotic. Screening livestock that’s in regular contact with humans for possible trans species viruses. Building hospitals and schools to help train medical people properly.
All of this is pretty bland and generally accepted. It’s gets messy when human genetic sampling gets involved: why did this person not get $disease when everybody he lived with keeled over? Why does this antibody drug work so well in population x but fails totally in population y? Universal vaccines and meds need targets will low or no mutation rates and these have to be found.
Med research can be a black hole. They’ve thrown billions into Alzheimer’s research to no avail. Candidates do what the biological model suggests but it doesn’t help…. Oops, wrong biological model.