[JonathanFly]

>I'd guess there are hundreds of companies working on COVID-19 vaccines. Here's an interesting one that was sent to me last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22313320

Yes, the BBC articles mentions they are mostly smaller companies funded by things like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This feels like a coordination problem given the size of the economic damage from stuff like this.

Ideally it would be governments picking up the slack, but if we are so inefficiently allocating money to vaccines that have such big impacts on Apple's supply lines, there's a business case for them hedging with investments of their own.