Comment Should've bought the patent (Score 1) 169
Hindsight is 20/20 but one of the things I didn't understand about the behavior of the government during the pandemic was the willingness to sort of do a business as usual with pharmacy firms. I am not normally
I think the US should have bought the patents of the initial mRNA vaccines and related therapies like Paxlovid. Pay a fair price, but also make Pfizer an offer they couldn't refuse. I'm not normally into the govt getting to run roughshod over private firms, but two cases....war and pandemic seem to allow for it. And as annoying and dysfunctional as they are, Congress should have to be the one to authorize a declaration of "war" or "pandemic" No more under the table "authorization of use of military force” . If you invade another country that is war. Now even Putin follows the lead with "special operation"
A huge chunk of this Paxlovid money will be paid by Medicare so should've just bought the cow...