Excellent business strategy. This'll get repeat business and make sure the bottom line is strong.
If there were an easy route to a durable vaccine, I can't imagine that someone wouldn't have tried to take over that entire market instead of settling for a drip here and there. You could charge a lot more (see also: SMA and Hepatitis C treatments) and the value to the brand ("From the people who ended the pandemic...") would be amazing.
As if there wouldn't be dozens of pharma researchers whistleblowing 'we have the cure but our lab won't sell it'.
An annual vaccine is what mostly works for the flu, and nobody but cranks was talking about labs not really wanting to cure the flu. It's just so damn hard. Now everything is easy? they just decided not to save us?
Precisely: lack of information is also an information. Such a simple, even beautiful way to look at things, yet so commonly ignored.
While parts of the pharma industry have definitely done shady things, the real reason we don't have a durable "cure" for many conditions is actually because the underlying biology is absurdly complex.
It's a little late for that. Phizer has already taken all those billions of dollars.
Not sure the government can afford to hand out a few more billion without making inflation even worse