There was discussion of it early on, but there's no evidence that it was done on any significant scale outside of the efforts of individual pharma companies working on their own supply chains.

It's possible that I'm wrong! Maybe we invested everything possible and couldn't have done significantly more. But it's striking that this article doesn't even address that question.

Basically, I haven't seen any evidence that this take is wrong: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2021/01/28/covid-bill-gates-and...