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Scientists reckon eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio, harder than smallpox – just buckle in for a wait

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@"On the science side: the development both of treatments and vaccines show quite how quickly we can now respond,"

Disagree, a year and a half in and we're still not vaccinated?

If BioNTech were signed to Sinovac, instead of Pfizer, we'd be vaccinated with a decent vaccine already.

If Pfizer cannot manufacture in volume, then what are they adding to the process? A fee? Some crypto block chain crap? Meetings with lots of Soy Decaf Lattes? What? It's literally their only job.

Astra Zeneca, likewise, did you need to stop and have some tea? Did H&S need to come around and test the kettle for earth safety, and put a little sticker on it to say you are allowed to plug it in, and only then after they'd done that, you could have your tea and make some vaccines? Pathetic volumes, pathetic scaling.

If its one thing we've learned its that China delivers in volume but lacks the expertise, and the west has the expertise but cannot deliver in volume.

Its not difficult to predict the future: The efficacy of Chinese vaccines is piss poor 51%, the efficacy of US and EU made vaccines is 0% IF YOU DO NOT DELIVER THEM.

Ten years from now, do you still want to be the worlds major pharmaceutical exporters? THEN MANUFACTURE AND EXPORT!

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