America Is Abandoning One of the Greatest Medical Breakthroughs
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jleyank
5 months ago
1 replyIt’s abandoning several, along with the underlying theory. I just can figure out how they’ll make money from the resulting disorder.
jleyank
5 months ago
can -> can't. Thanks autocorrect!
jinpa_zangpo
5 months ago
1 replyThe time to market for a new vaccine is mostly not in the development, it is in the necessary safety testing before deploying it.
jaggs
5 months ago
But you can't, of course, have the latter without the former.
tromp
5 months ago
https://archive.is/VOMfH
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