This might be done, at least in some cases, with not that much ill-will.
The best academics begin by borrowing/stealing the best work that other people have done and are doing and then build on it.
If other countries are grappling with trying to find solutions, it would seem more efficient to use one’s own limited medical resouusrces to augment U.S. research than to re-invent the wheel.
As well, with lthe formal forced confinement of oads of millennials who can’t contribute to the medical research but who can do all sorts of computer things from their parent’s basement, it brobably helps to reduce the chances of the game sites and porn sites crashing by giving some of them something productive to do.
Well then it’s okay :-) hack the **** away and even go into our defense department. There might be something useful there.
Seems like it would make sense to opensource the research.