Comment on New Vaccine Can Completely Reverse Autoimmune Diseases Like Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and Crohn’s Disease

• there1snospoon@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Imagine if there was a global fund for disease cures that all the industrialized nations poured their money and resources into.

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  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you’re talking about The Global Fund, they only attack very specific diseases, mostly eradicated in industrialized nations but persist due to poverty (like malaria).

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    • there1snospoon@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which is silly because eradicating them in some places while leaving them elsewhere just costs more money anyways.

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      • DarthBueller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I wonder to what degree anti-western sentiments impact the delivery of certain treatments. Thinking about the distrust I read about after a fake vaccination campaign was used to take out bin Laden, and other distrust and anti-messaging that has to be contended with. It sounds so impossibly frustrating to have the added burden against such basic medicine.

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  • Lev_Astov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can just imagine the opportunities for corruption in such an organization.

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    • there1snospoon@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m curious how we will ever be advance to the point of being a post-scarcity space faring civilization if we don’t take these sorts of steps because we’re too busy wondering about what might go wrong

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      • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I highly doubt we’ll get to a post-scarcity space faring civilization stage. More likely, we’re in the midst of the “self-destruction” part of the Great Filter.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Imagine if the research and development of treatments and vaccines for endemic pathogens and genetic disorders were… you know… socialized

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  • WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hear this argument all the time, but the majority of the major research comes from the US [1]. My inclination is that, because the US is for-profit, the cures are developed faster and the science is here. The socialized nations lack, it’s a fact, and it’s certainly not for a lack of resources

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It seems like the COViD model worked pretty well. One of these days I’d like to better understand the process, but I believe it was something like ….

  Vaccine developed by private companies but with a lot of government funding but more importantly, massive contracts at a fixed price.

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• kpw@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Outside of for-profit corporations and outside of academia? So neither the private sector nor the public sector? Who should do medical research then?

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