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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8261557" data-attributes="member: 177"><p><img src="https://media1.tenor.com/images/d747a7280460efbcf45cc5e7aae67c0d/tenor.gif?itemid=14328153" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Working out how to produce it at lower cost is a development effort - that takes time, likely months to years. While in the long run it is helpful, in the sort run it'd increase time and cost to get stuff in people's arms. Also, Moderna and Pfizer vaccines require deep refrigeration, that makes them incredibly had to work with in many places - these are not vaccines you want in areas with weak infrastructure, even if the cost per dose came down some</p><p></p><p>There are legal issues to removing patent protection - it isn't a thing the government can do on a whim, and doing so would freak the ever loving frak out of every technology company in the nation. A government trying to unilaterally remove patent protection probably means lawsuits, because no company wants their rights ripped away. And you should not expect the court precedent to go the way you want. While the courts <em>might</em> decide that a form of "eminent domain" may be exerted for a crisis in the US... we do not now have a crisis of production in the US. And I don't think there's a precedent for asserting such government rights on behalf of people of other nations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8261557, member: 177"] [IMG]https://media1.tenor.com/images/d747a7280460efbcf45cc5e7aae67c0d/tenor.gif?itemid=14328153[/IMG] Working out how to produce it at lower cost is a development effort - that takes time, likely months to years. While in the long run it is helpful, in the sort run it'd increase time and cost to get stuff in people's arms. Also, Moderna and Pfizer vaccines require deep refrigeration, that makes them incredibly had to work with in many places - these are not vaccines you want in areas with weak infrastructure, even if the cost per dose came down some There are legal issues to removing patent protection - it isn't a thing the government can do on a whim, and doing so would freak the ever loving frak out of every technology company in the nation. A government trying to unilaterally remove patent protection probably means lawsuits, because no company wants their rights ripped away. And you should not expect the court precedent to go the way you want. While the courts [I]might[/I] decide that a form of "eminent domain" may be exerted for a crisis in the US... we do not now have a crisis of production in the US. And I don't think there's a precedent for asserting such government rights on behalf of people of other nations. [/QUOTE]
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