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I wonder how many lives all that R&D costs in the US. Seems like a strange trade to let US citizens die due to lack of healthcare to fund the world's R&D. I dou
by Afforess 4y ago
I wonder how many lives all that R&D costs in the US. Seems like a strange trade to let US citizens die due to lack of healthcare to fund the world's R&D. I doubt anyone here would vote to ratify such a deal, formally.
- anonuser123456 4y agoThe drugs have to be developed, and no other mechanism seems to produce them. Clinical trials are extremely expensive and very risky. In the long run, these drugs go off patent and become low cost and highly available. Yes, people today will struggle, maybe even die today. But in a generation more people will thrive.
- mrguyorama 4y agoAh yes, which is why the US was the only place to quickly develop effective COVID vaccines.
- munch117 4y agoBioNTech SE An der Goldgrube 12 55131 Mainz, Germany I'm all for giving the US credit for healthcare R&D, there's a lot of credit due. But don't just take it for granted, or you'll miss the signs that point in other directions. Specifically with COVID-19, there was a lot of global collaboration.
- anonuser123456 4y agoI think parent is being sarcastic. But that said, the key point remains; the US is where the money is. The US underwrote the mRNA platforms with a guarantee of 10 billion in revenue while the EU haggled with AZ for like 1 billion. In the process, the US developed an entire scalable delivery pipeline for mRNA that didn’t exist prior.