CV and mad panic behaviour

[ElwoodBlues1]

This Novavax seems very encouraging. Probably end up being my, and many others folks', 3rd jab next year. Hope we get to manufacture it here... supporting local industry and employment opportunities.

No doubt technologies will keep evolving until we get on top of this thing. And more stringent safety measures will be enforced in labs fcking around with these viruses.

Novavax is on the smaller size compared to Pfizer and Astra who are Big Pharma, it does manufacture in Sth Korea and I think might have something going on in India but requires a bit of sponsorship to make things happen unlike the other two.
Bill Gates is one who has tipped in some money to help fund Novavax projects, not sure if they would get any money to help them set up in Australia. Moderna is the company more likely to setup in Australia but they usually partner with other companies to help manufacture and peddle their products.
As LP has suggested in previous posts the business aspects and marketing of vaccines seems as important to these companies as the finished product and although no fan of AstraZ vaccine I am happy to admit it has fallen victim to Pfizer's bigger brand name on the world stage and more aggressive marketing tactics.
AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have committed to not making a profit from the pandemic, while Moderna and Pfizer did not. AstraZeneca reserved the right, however, to declare the pandemic phase over and take profits from later vaccine sales.
At the start of 2020, Novavax was a clinical-stage biotech with minimal revenue and no products on the market. Now, it has trailing revenues of more than $475 million, and by the end of this year, it might be selling two different vaccines,earning more than $4 billion in annual revenue.
IMHO while these companies are giving us vaccines for little cost at the minute, we have to remember they have been funded by Euro Goverments, the USA Government and some privates, that wont continue after the pandemic is seen as controlled and the price will rise as AstraZ Officials have indicated.