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imo 66% effectiveness is pretty good, not on a personal level, but at the population policy level. I'm glad to get another vaccine on the market soon.

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On the other hand it's quite sad that we as humanity have already developed two vaccines with 95% (or even higher) effectiveness but are not able (or rather: are too greedy) to share this knowledge to vaccine every human on earth as fast as possible.

Instead the US and Europe are putting trade restrictions in place to keep the vaccines for themselves. India and China are more than capable to produce the vaccines in insane quantities but IP law doesn't let them.

It's not a tech problem, it's a production problem. There are only a few companies on earth that are capable of producing the precursor chemicals for these mRNA vaccines, and until now they were geared towards producing small batch research drugs. They are expanding rapidly but production capacity is at 100%.

If we could (globally) build emergency public hospitals, why can't we build emergency public production facilities?

Yeah I just don’t understand why we can’t put the full industrial capacity of the U.S. government behind this. I’m genuinely curious about the on-the-ground details which make manufacturing this stuff hard. Would love to see the playbook for raw materials to vial of vaccine.

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