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Re:Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit coronaviru... by squiggleblaz on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:05PM (#22426755)
I certainly hope patents be damned at a time like this. Maybe once everything is settled they can get a pay out. But if they can conscript human bodies to die in trenches they can borrow fictional gifts to fictional people
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Re:Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit coronaviru... by MaupitiBlue on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @03:46PM (#22427146)
That would certainly incentivize pharma to develop the next antiviral, wouldn’t it?
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Re:Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit coronaviru... by hiccuphippo on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:35PM (#22428189)
If there's no humans left, they'd have 100% of the market.
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Re:Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit coronaviru... by erentz on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:21PM (#22429041)
They're still going to get paid a hell of a lot of money if this drug works. It's not just going to be taken from them without any kind of compensation at all from the US Government and others.
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Re:Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit coronaviru... by viraptor on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:12PM (#22428517)
That's getting close to false dichotomy: rely on patents or get no research. Maybe a different financial model is required these days. Not everything needs to reach late stage capitalism.
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