Munchkin
Full of Fairy Dust
More people have now died from COVID in the US than WWII. We now have a vaccine and I just read that Nevada is getting just a titch under 25K doses. It's a beginning. A drop in the ocean. We all have to wait our turn. That's OK. I was just thinking in a crisis situation we should be able to do more.
But, thinking back to WWII, all manufacturing industry was forced, asked, requested, whatever, to make war materials. Most had to operate 24x7. And produce whatever was in their capacity that the government needed. So why can't we do that with the vaccine? Surely there are lots of chemical/pharma/biological companies who could pretty easily make this vaccine. The hard work, creating the vaccine, has been done. Once you have it in hand it's not that hard to replicate it. If all the companies who could manufacture the vaccine were doing just that, couldn't we get it our there to everyone much faster?
Are there not laws and precedent out there that would make this possible? Wasn't this done with the polio vaccine?
But, thinking back to WWII, all manufacturing industry was forced, asked, requested, whatever, to make war materials. Most had to operate 24x7. And produce whatever was in their capacity that the government needed. So why can't we do that with the vaccine? Surely there are lots of chemical/pharma/biological companies who could pretty easily make this vaccine. The hard work, creating the vaccine, has been done. Once you have it in hand it's not that hard to replicate it. If all the companies who could manufacture the vaccine were doing just that, couldn't we get it our there to everyone much faster?
Are there not laws and precedent out there that would make this possible? Wasn't this done with the polio vaccine?