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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostProbably a few tens of dollars knowing how these patent holding drug companies gouge the market.
What model do you suggest for getting that investment back?
No new drugs were ever developed in the old Soviet Union, AFAIK.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostGenerally speaking, it can take 10 years and billions of dollars to bring a new drug to market.
What model do you suggest for getting that investment back?
No new drugs were ever developed in the old Soviet Union, AFAIK.Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostNo new drugs were ever developed in the old Soviet Union, AFAIK.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostGenerally speaking, it can take 10 years and billions of dollars to bring a new drug to market.
What model do you suggest for getting that investment back?
No new drugs were ever developed in the old Soviet Union, AFAIK.Comment
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Originally posted by tazdevil View PostIsn't this why the government is investing in the R&D to find suitable medical solutions? The government doesn't need to get its investment back in the first instance because their first priority is protecting the population and secondly ensuring the international drugs business aids the UK economy.Comment
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Originally posted by tazdevil View PostIsn't this why the government is investing in the R&D to find suitable medical solutions? The government doesn't need to get its investment back in the first instance because their first priority is protecting the population and secondly ensuring the international drugs business aids the UK economy.
1. Do they respect the patent and pay what they have to?
2. Do they use their sovereign power to ignore the patent and produce it themselves (or license companies to produce it)?
3. Do they use the threat of 2 to significantly drive down the cost?Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostHopefully he is right, but it won't be safe enough to use on mass scale, only for health workers and others who under much higher risk.
And then there are anti-vaxxers, who will be out in force with their tin foil hats.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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French have found a cure!
French researchers to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients | World news | The Guardian
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