[epic] How to have funded a covid vaccine for everyone (by now)

[rufuspollock]

A vaccine for COVID that is available and affordable for everyone is a perfect example of failure of existing innovation and access system for medicines and how iMED / Remuneration Rights model would have been better.

• What happened with COVID: when were vaccines created, what was cost of access
  • general lack of transparency
• What the problem was and is
• How that relates to current model for medical innovation and delivery
• How iMED model would have worked

[theo-cox]

I would say this is priority no.2 after web3 stuff given potential for coverage in mainstream news (and even something perhaps in parallel if we have a few spare hours, unlikely as that is) - doesn't take much original thought just back of the envelope calculations plugged into existing OpenRev/iMed models and packaged into a decent enough sounding article...