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Bruce Mirken
Bruce Mirken
@BruceMirken@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

This is #RFKJr's real game: Make it so that pharmaceutical companies don't want to invest in #vaccine research. And it's working. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/moderna-chief-company-won-t-invest-new-late-stage-vaccine-trials

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Moderna chief: Company won’t invest in new late-stage vaccine trials

Moderna has already been facing declines in sales after a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@BruceMirken

Have a good friend who is a retired Chief Science Officer for a big pharma company. He says the entire FDA/Industry process for drug approvals has been destroyed resulting in a 50 (yes 50!, half a century!) setback to worldwide drug development.

And it will never recover, because now trust is wrecked. Other nations will try to fill the void, but they need to build everything from scratch. The US was the only game in town for safe drug R&D, and it is simply gone.

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@ZenHeathen@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

@mastodonmigration And the next pandemic is getting its shoes on in India right now, with no vaccine... @BruceMirken

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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

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Another thing. What he says is increasingly replacing the solid industry/academic/government collaboration mechanism is scattershot billionaire drug moonshots. With the super rich haphazardly funding research into their priorities and/or vanity drug developments. Apparently this is the way drugs were developed a hundred years ago with notoriously sketchy efficacy.

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