Re: COVID-19 Vaccine: 8,000 jumbo jets needed to deliver doses globally, says IATA
Originally Posted by
Omah
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You may be an expert but I'm not .....
I have no idea how drugs of mass prevention are normally manufactured and shipped around the world but, in the example, the quantity is a minimum of 7,800,000,000 doses ( 1 per person) - of course, that may double, triple or quadruple .....
Well having lived in a third world country, l can tell that the
pharmaceutical industry has been dominated by large western
companies that maximise their profits, with the esult that poorer
cunries could never afford the prices being asked for these
sometimes life saving drugs, even the aids drugs were torally
out of reach? I remember it took years get the price reduced if
at all?? And caused high d eath rates in most third world countries
as a consequence !!
So a couple of poor countries,( lndia and south africa ) decided to
make their own vaccines by basically copying the western drugs?
Of course the western companies protested about this and took
lndia& SA t court prevent them doing this, however some time
later the court ruled it should be allowed on humanitarian grounds
as so many people were dying??
Anyway, the upshot of this was the birth of the generic drug industry
and the saving of millions poor peoples lives and the provision of
cheaper drugs all over the world today, even in uk!
So my take on the pharmaceutical industry is that it is vastly over
priced and has little interest in saving human lives, its purpose
is to make money! lots of it !!
Donkeyman! 👎🤔👎
From your figures Omah, you can calculate the money involved??