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Originally Posted by John41
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. Jennifer Doudna last years Nobel prize winner in medicine wrote an interesting book “The Code Breaker” on the research leading up to vaccines.
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I can't find a source showing that the Pfizer exec "walked back" a statement that they didn't receive funding for their research on the vaccine. What I -can- find is that Pfizer sunk over $2 BILLION of their own money into the research for their initial four vaccine attempts. They also worked with BioNTech in a collaborative effort. BioNTech DID get funding - from Germany.
What the US provided was actual purchase of 100 million doses, and the right to buy another 500 million, which we paid 2 billion dollars for.
Also, just aside, in response to other posts blaming certain races or political parties for being unvaccinated:
I don't give a flying fart what color they are or political party they belong to. If they CAN vaccinate, and CHOOSE not to, they are to blame. Whoever they are.
The majority of people sick with the virus, presently, are UNvaccinated. That's all that matters to me.