It goes beyond "what industry". The pharma industry is rythmed by patents. Pharma corps need new patents to keep the money coming in. HCQ isn't patented anymore and doesn't bring nearly as much money to the original patent holder. A new vaccine is way more attractive for pharma corps financially speaking.
Edit: just so we are clear, I don't blame pharma corps for their business model, I understand this is how they work and this allows them creating new meds, which is good. I however condemn the abuse of this system, like patenting a vaccine when a treatment pretty much already exists.
It's been around for seventy years. Modern Pharma would have discarded it 63 years ago because it wouldn't make them tons of money. Anyway, it doesn't require lifetime treatment which is their holy grail.
If Big Pharma actually cares about people and cures, we'd have far more. But it's not nearly as profitable as lifetime treatment with expensive treatments or better yet, multiple pills to treat every disease with 5% effectiveness.
Meh. What industry do you think developed HQC? It wasn't automotive...
It goes beyond "what industry". The pharma industry is rythmed by patents. Pharma corps need new patents to keep the money coming in. HCQ isn't patented anymore and doesn't bring nearly as much money to the original patent holder. A new vaccine is way more attractive for pharma corps financially speaking.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5314894A/en
Edit: just so we are clear, I don't blame pharma corps for their business model, I understand this is how they work and this allows them creating new meds, which is good. I however condemn the abuse of this system, like patenting a vaccine when a treatment pretty much already exists.
It's been around for seventy years. Modern Pharma would have discarded it 63 years ago because it wouldn't make them tons of money. Anyway, it doesn't require lifetime treatment which is their holy grail.
If Big Pharma actually cares about people and cures, we'd have far more. But it's not nearly as profitable as lifetime treatment with expensive treatments or better yet, multiple pills to treat every disease with 5% effectiveness.
HQC has been around for almost a century, it's very cheap to make, and there's zero patents. So what exactly are you trying to imply?