Vaccine and pharmaceuticals research are already mostly publicly funded. But the profits are privatized. * Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine research ‘was 97% p

Vaccine and pharmaceuticals research are already mostly publicly funded. But the profits are privatized. * Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine research ‘was 97% publicly funded’: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastrazeneca-covid-vaccine-research-was-97-publicly-funded https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastraz... * (US Specific) Most New Molecular Entities (NME) approved by the FDA are derived from public research (I dont know exact numbers)