I agree, a global solution is ideal. But please keep in mind these initiatives, if they speed up treatment or help stockpile resources, will allow others to use those cures and/or the other supplies that would be freed up.

Also, it may be more effective to concentrate everyone in one project that starts with the US since it has the most resources (technology, medical, science, etc) and then send out the results rather than having sparse groups trying to do the same thing for all different areas of the globe.

Best to build a prototype for a focused set of problems and users, then expand out once you have success there. Difference between needing 750k ventilators and 200m ventilators and also simultaneously having to solve all the global regulations, shipping, distribution, customs, etc.