>>11550617Over but not for too much longer.
>>11550646Yeah, this is an issue, more profitable to sell PREP. But research is still ongoing anyway.
One of the big problems in pharma is that due to the high barrier to entry being somewhat necessary (largely the cost of clinical testing) it suffers from the issues of marketplace interference such as bailouts that lead to monopolisation way harder. You don't get this problem when you don't have monopolies, because you don't have the same people selling cure and treatment, so it's easier for one small, innovative firm to come along and solve a lot of problems and upend business as usual without harming themselves.
Similar thing freeman dyson suffered from when he tried to sell his bagless vacuum, he couldn't pass the testing because it had to be done in a dust free environment. Which you know, why would you ever use a vacuum cleaner in a room that's not dusty? The reason being that the entrenched german vacuum cleaner manufacturers used to design their vacuum cleaners without proper filters because it was cheaper and use software to gradually increase the power. It took him over half a decade to get the correspondence between the courts and manufacturers released showing collusion, then the upper courts to reverse the decision, to get his product to market. For a vacuum cleaner. That's why they bang on about having no loss of suction even now in their ad copy. Pharma is even worse, some of the testing is neccessary, but I think some of it is to keep small biotech firms unprofitable unless they get bought out. Corona-chan may have in the long run accelerated a lot of drug development processes.
