From democracy now this morning, despite being stonewalled by us gov, doctors at Texas Children's developed their own patent-free COVID vaccine and production is now underway in India
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https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/3/patent_free_vaccine_in_texas
And they did that with a 7 million dollars budget...
Proof that one does need money to do useful things, but not the shitloads of money that are usually consumed by big corps.