What say you?
DOA. The FDA will require years of clinical trials.
So you would remove any incentive to develop an Ebola vaccine? Why would you want to do that?
Vaccines are not as great as people have been led to think.
There are companies that are already on it.
The company I work for (will not mention the name, confidentiality and all that), is performing contract analytical work on a protein-based vaccine component specifically designed to target Ebola.
So it IS happening.
How would you feel if some well-intended person said to you, "While I believe that everyone should get a fair wage for an honest day's work, I believe that the shareholders deserve more for their investment. I think it's time for you to give up your day's/week's/month's worth of pay."
You could argue that the shareholders' treatment isn't as dire of an "emergency" as an Ebola pandemic, but just because you declare an "emergency" doesn't give you the right to impose how others should or shouldn't act.
That said, in the event of a world-wide outbreak, I do think that there would be a coming-together of governments and private companies to develop a fast-track vaccine. It may be a temporary cost and reduction in short-term profit, but hopefully the longer-term good will would turn to profit later.
Good idea! Get together some venture capital, form a pharmaceutical company, and have at it.
?? Why can’t they make a profit? I demand you give us free labor and become an indentured servant.
Most pharma companies are in bed with the Gov’t anyway. When Uncle Sam writes all the rules and pays 50% of the bills, it can’t be any other way.
If the central-planning commissars want to order their lackey’s to produce something, why do they need my permission?
So now they should “for free” develop a vaccine. Its that easy, eh?
Why don’t they also cure cancer “for free” while they’re at it?
How is this paid for? should these people volunteer and surrender their goods & services for free?
Any chance we could forego a couple of them bike paths and do something that actually save American lives? Just sayin...
I’d say pick a new screen name that better reflects your true economic beliefs.
Africa rejected colonialism. Many of those of African descent in the US don't think the rules of civilization apply to them.
I say shut off the infected countries and let Africa solve their own problems for a change.
TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T ALREADY KNOW.
Where would the funding come from? Most if not all pharma companies are public owned. Are you saying is that small and large investors should be forced to pay for a cure for a disease with no recompense? Isn’t that like the government coming in and raiding your bank account because they know how to spend your money better?
Vaccines are already indemnified via congress in 1986.
They will bill the developed world for the vaccines and source the money to vaccinate Africa that way.
YOU will have to take a $100 vaccine (times 330 million Americans) so they can afford to vaccinate 1B Africans.
It’s what they’re doing with Gardasil, btw.
Laissez-Faire is your name....
A company cannot just give away its shareholders’ money. The CEO would be gone, pronto.
They’ve been trying to make a vaccine for ebola for 40 years, and there’s no real indication they’ll figure out out. Any planning on what to do after they figure one out is very cart before the horse. Although frankly given how little chance there is of being exposed to ebola I’d probably skip the vaccine.