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red sox 777 posted...

But if you let it be known that you will pay $$$ for any unproven vaccine regardless of whether it works, hundreds of companies, most of them with no workable plans at all, will be lining up to sell you their product.

The Trump admin presumably did some type of vetting when they were handing out Warp Speed money. What Im suggesting is that they should have committed to buying enough doses to vaccinate the population for each vaccine instead of like 15-30% as many doses. That would not have fundamentally changed the incentives (and yeah, the money on some of the vaccines would have been wasted), but youd guarantee that if at least one was successful youd be able to vaccinate the population (and that if multiple were successful you could do so at maximum speed). If at the end of the day the government had excess vaccine contracts, it would not be hard to sell to other countries.

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