which makes you wonder what other diseases could have been cured right now if there was a state planned R&D model for medicine that issued lofty requirements and let drug design bureaus compete with each other to make the best product before a winner is selected and they all work together on manufacturing.

Reminds of how quickly we pivoted to mass producing effective medical countermeasures for Ebola, as soon as the US had its first domestic case.

Also... Jesus Christ, can you even imagine the US enduring an Ebola epidemic after the last two years of this shit.