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by moving_sofa 1254 days ago
Vaccine and pharmaceuticals research are already mostly publicly funded. But the profits are privatized.

* Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine research ‘was 97% publicly funded’: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastraz...

* (US Specific) Most New Molecular Entities (NME) approved by the FDA are derived from public research (I dont know exact numbers)