Oxford Coronavirus Team: "Nobody is going to make a lot of money off this".

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Unlike some other vaccine efforts, Oxford University is not in it for big bucks. Drug manufacturers will be granted (only) non exclusive licenses. Manufacturing is being set up in Britain and the Netherlands before the vaccine has been proven to work.

Phases I trials are underway with 1,100 people. Phase II/III trials with 5,000 will begin next month. If successful, production may begin as early as September.

One of the reasons the team is ahead is their experience is producing MERS and Ebola vaccines.

In Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, an Oxford Group Leaps Ahead

... As the pandemic exploded, grant money poured in. All other vaccines were soon put into the freezer so that the institute’s laboratory could focus full-time on Covid-19. Then the lockdown forced everyone not working on Covid-19 to stay home altogether.

... Other scientists involved in the project are working with a half dozen drug manufacturing companies across Europe and Asia to prepare to churn out billions of doses as quickly as possible if the vaccine is approved. None have been granted exclusive marketing rights, and one is the giant Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest supplier of vaccines.

Donors are currently spending tens of millions of dollars to start the manufacturing process at facilities in Britain and the Netherlands even before the vaccine is proven to work, said Sandy Douglas, 37, a doctor at Oxford overseeing vaccine production.

... But the team has not yet reached an agreement with a North American manufacturer,in part because the major pharmaceutical companies there typically demand exclusive worldwide rights before investing in a potential medicine.

“I personally don’t believe that in a time of pandemic there should be exclusive licenses,” Professor Hill said. “So we are asking a lot of them. Nobody is going to make a lot of money off this.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/world/europe/coronavirus-vaccine-update-oxford.html

[Botany]

1. "But the team has not yet reached an agreement with a North American manufacturer ..."

Too bad they didn't need a meat packing plant because Trump would be all over that "stuff."

Trump to Order U.S. Meat Plants to Stay Open Amid Pandemic

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142481470

[BComplex]

2. Trump's FDA will not approve a vaccine for the USA unless HE, and an American company, are allowed

to profit in the extreme.

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4. If the rest of the world has it

dumpling may not have a choice - particularly if VP Biden is promising fast approval.

[SheltieLover]

3. Clearly

not the policy in the United States of Extortion.

[LonePirate]

5. That will royally piss off 45 who is wanting to profit from American vaccine licensing & production.