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by InTheArena 1844 days ago
THE US government at 66 million pounds was also the single biggest investor in research that led to the Astra-Zeneca/Oxford vaccine as well.

They also paid for the US supply chain, and a non-trivial part of the European supply chain as part of OWS.

It’s not a mistake that the successful vaccines where heavily internationalized affairs with a lot of research money, then a lot of infrastructure spending.