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by _lqaf 2301 days ago
What's needed is for the NIH to get in to the drug manufacturing business, start making generics and vaccines itself.

A huge amount of their research already is directly responsible for private industry profits; they can be happy with that freebie. But for things like vaccines in emergencies and insulin, if this be socialism; let's make the most of it.