Big Pharma has gotten a deservedly bad rap by buying the rights to generic drugs then jacking up the price by a large multiple. Also as their patents expire they will make a small change refile and will threaten generic companies with lawsuits. Last year the government did provide funding to Moderna and the Pfizer exec walked back his statement that they did not get government help. The real heroes are the scientists whose institutions filed patents and fought with each other on the rights. Walter Isaacson wrote an interesting book “The Code Breaker” on Jennifer Doudna, last years Nobel prize winner in medicine whose research lead up to vaccines.