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Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by zarzavat on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @07:32PM (#28067799)
If you actually want that, then you need some kind of megaproject to build vaccine factories to supply the entire world and to distribute them to the whole world's population. This virus doesn't respect borders.
Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by monocasa on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @07:44PM (#28067894)
Yes in fact, that's the core of what a lot of people have been wanting by trying to get an IP waiver from the WTO. You don't even need new factories, as there's tons of factories out there that are itching to make the various vaccines.
Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by vimy on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:29PM (#28068230)
It was my understanding that the developing world doesn’t have the required infrastructure nor qualified workers to manufacture the complex covid vaccines. So the whole patent point is moot.
Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by monocasa on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:32PM (#28068258)
Your understanding is incorrect, hence the ongoing process for the WTO waiver. Even the mRNA vaccines aren't that crazy, it's a culture of e. coli that's been genetically engineered to produce the vaccines; the manufacturing steps themselves are pretty run of the mill bio reactor stuff with slightly more stringent temperature controls on the tail end. The non mRNA vaccines are pretty much equivalent to any other standard vaccine.
Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by hcurtiss on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:26PM (#28069487)
With an IP waiver, you make it less likely you'll have a vaccine for the next one, defeating the entire purpose.
Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by monocasa on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @11:32PM (#28069539)
No you don't; the vaccines were funded almost entirely with public money anyway.
Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by hcurtiss on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:36AM (#28069918)
Their manufacture was. The mRNA research was a huge private bet (after some companies had given up).
Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by monocasa on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:25PM (#28076792)
The largest source of Moderna's R&D funding was nearly $1B in grants from the US Government.
Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by shaklee3 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:07AM (#28070080)
This has already happened. There's a world organization distributing millions of vaccines, and soon billions.