• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    However, the creation of COVID vaccines was not difficult.

    Looking at the shitfest around the vaccines in the west i would say otherwise, including how they refuse to release the patents.

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      1 year ago

      The ones you had to wait for in the west were mRNA vaccines. They are newer, more complicated, and in theory customisable to a wider range of infections. While I’d love to see these opened up and used for their full potential I can see why the pharma corps don’t want that.

      While I haven’t looked, I’ll bet that the Cuban ones were"simply" using a deactivated virus - which is less effective and especially less effective against mutated strains.