> When we needed COVID vaccines, the research was done by private entities.
Decades of publicly funded research, then private companies are "spun out" of publicly funded research institutions and then the private companies are given yet more public money as grants.
The disgrace is that the profits are privatised when the novel research is not.
Decades of publicly funded research, then private companies are "spun out" of publicly funded research institutions and then the private companies are given yet more public money as grants.
The disgrace is that the profits are privatised when the novel research is not.