The US Government gave the following for vaccine research with options to purchase vaccines as they become available:
$1.2 billion to AstraZeneca
$456 million to Johnson & Johnson
$430 million to Moderna
$60 million to Novavax
$38 million to Merck
$30 million to Sanofi
However, Pfizer and BioNTech refused development money. Instead they announced a $1.95 billion deal with the federal government for pre-purchase of 100 million doses of their experimental vaccine candidate. This is a better deal because it works out to $19.50 per dose final costs less transportation. BTW, the us population is 330,618,562. The world population is 7,701,203,860.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/health/us-coronavirus-vaccine-funding/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ion-doses-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine/5489964002/
If this pandemic is a real world crisis shouldn't the US pay for all development costs for US drug manufacturers? Also shouldn't the different manufacturers share information with each other world wide for the greater good of mankind? Then when a vaccine proves successful and non-harmful shouldn't the formula be shared with the world so everybody can quickly be vaccinated? Different countries can use their own drug manufacturers to create their own vaccines using the supplied formula if they so choose. It would vaccinate the world much faster while using less resources.
The those that believe: Is God testing us all to see how we behave and work together when there is a world wide crisis? How are we doing?
$1.2 billion to AstraZeneca
$456 million to Johnson & Johnson
$430 million to Moderna
$60 million to Novavax
$38 million to Merck
$30 million to Sanofi
However, Pfizer and BioNTech refused development money. Instead they announced a $1.95 billion deal with the federal government for pre-purchase of 100 million doses of their experimental vaccine candidate. This is a better deal because it works out to $19.50 per dose final costs less transportation. BTW, the us population is 330,618,562. The world population is 7,701,203,860.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/health/us-coronavirus-vaccine-funding/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ion-doses-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine/5489964002/
If this pandemic is a real world crisis shouldn't the US pay for all development costs for US drug manufacturers? Also shouldn't the different manufacturers share information with each other world wide for the greater good of mankind? Then when a vaccine proves successful and non-harmful shouldn't the formula be shared with the world so everybody can quickly be vaccinated? Different countries can use their own drug manufacturers to create their own vaccines using the supplied formula if they so choose. It would vaccinate the world much faster while using less resources.
The those that believe: Is God testing us all to see how we behave and work together when there is a world wide crisis? How are we doing?