• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The government promised to purchase massive quantities of Pfizer manufactured it to guarantee a market, they didn’t directly fund R&D.

    I’ve heard government grants were involved?

    Either way, guaranteed funds is still one hell of a profit motive to do the R&D and produce the medicine.