The whole world can thank the Trump administration and Operation Warp Speed [0].
It provided billions of dollars and firm orders for any manufacturer who could get it's vaccine candidate on the market. All paid for by the American tax payer, of course. To fight a disease that most likely originated in a Chinese lab.
Without it it would have been months of additional delay for R&D and production (see the vaccines not selected for Warp Speed or the CanSino program in Canada[1])
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed
[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cansino-deal-canada-nrc-fifth...
…like paying for all the vaccines ahead of time, without any guarantee they worked, and the decades of government-sponsored research that made them possible in the first place? The drug companies were not in anyway “heroes,” but net beneficiaries of the enclosure of public research, which, combined with decades of bribing politicians to prevent state manufacturing capacity and enforce bogus IP restrictions, has resulted in wildly inequitable global vaccine access and countless, unnecessary deaths across the world.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/jun-12-missions-to-venus-lea...