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Coronavirus Vaccine on the Horizon, but White House Intervenes

posted by martyb on Sunday March 15 2020, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-a-stab-at-it dept.

quietus writes:

German company CureVac has received a rather strange offer from the current White House.

On March 3, CureVac's CEO was invited to the White House, for a meeting with President Trump, Vice Pence and several members of the Coronavirus Task Force. Asked for when a vaccine could be ready, he estimated that a potential candidate could be ready within a few months. Apparently, that triggered the members of the meeting so much, that they've now offered to buy the company, at whatever price.

One condition though: production would be exclusively for the United States.

The move is not exactly one to gain popularity, and follows on the heels of the President's worrying statement that "a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe".

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 16 2020, @05:26PM (3 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 16 2020, @05:26PM (#971941) Journal
    Sounds like you really care.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday March 16 2020, @06:51PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 16 2020, @06:51PM (#971966) Journal

    If, hypothetically, there were some hypothetical effort to attempt to either
    A) privately profit from a monopoly on a cure/treatment
    B) favor a particular nation getting the cure/treatment

    then,

    I think that is definitely something worth caring about. People don't consider how they would like it if the she was on the other foot.

    If some tyrannical dictatorial evil repressive and (omg!) socialist regime, say Sweden or Denmark, were to try to monopolize a cure/treatment, then people in the US would be mildly upset, I believe.

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    The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 17 2020, @09:54AM (1 child)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 17 2020, @09:54AM (#972127) Journal
      The "Trumpers" of your previous post seem very relevant to your interests. And there's this huge word that starts your present post, "IF".

      It puts the cart before the horse to start speculating on what fanatical "Trumpers" will or won't do in a scenario when you don't have much in the way of evidence to support that the scenario happened, and are speculating on something that even if it happened and you cared, is defined to be trivially true (after all, anyone who didn't continue to support Trump under such a circumstance would certainly not be a Trumper!).

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 17 2020, @01:47PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 17 2020, @01:47PM (#972191) Journal

        I used the word IF to separate issues and focus on whether this is worth caring about if it were to happen; rather than debate about whether or not it is happening.

        Now if it is worth caring about, and if there is evidence it has happened, such as the German government confirming it, then that definitely makes it worth caring about.

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        The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.