> Public policy was mostly a disaster and thank god for all the taxpayers who poured R&D funds into “big pharma”. FTFY. You mean the estimated USD 39.5bi taxp

> Public policy was mostly a disaster and thank god for all the taxpayers who poured R&D funds into “big pharma”. FTFY. You mean the estimated USD 39.5bi taxpayer dollars that went into big pharma R&D just in the US? Or the US 3.6Bi, Europe 1.9Bi of taxpayer money invested in the first 2 years in big pharma? Big pharma doesn't exist in a vacuum. Someone needs to be interested in large scale research, purchasing and applying all those vaccines, or their effectiveness is hampered.