Fair play to them, but his last sentence is either entirely naive or totally disingenuous. No matter who developed the vaccine(s), the variants would still have arisen because in order for a vaccine to be effective, people have to take it, and millions of Americans - and others around the world, even here - refuse to do so. So while I applaud his ethics, his conclusion is based on an entirely false premise. Vaccine uptake is not slow because pharma care more about making money than protecting people (though of course they do), it's slow because people have been fooled into not trusting it, and so no matter who makes it they will still say NO.
And of course, one of the super-hotspot NO areas is... Texas. So the chances of this changing things significantly, in terms of variants, or vaccine trust or uptake, are about as likely as Trump renouncing QAnon. Not gonna happen.
But I repeat: fair play to them. Other pharma companies could learn a lot from them.
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