The obvious one is China. China can speed up clinical trials without bureaucratic red tape in a way that the US and Europe can’t. Unfortunately, there’s little that our community can do to affect Chinese decision making.
The less obvious is the UK. Politically pulling of the stunt of creating the first effective vaccine against the corona-virus would be very good to show the advantages that the UK has through Brexit that allow it to operate outside of EU red tape.
Dominic Cummings seems to be open to rationalist argument and also powerful enough to push through a policy like this.
China can do it, but for effective testing they need to do it in a region with high level of new infections, but for now they almost stop local transmission.
Yes, with especially with UK’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance saying they want to not reduce spread and have 60% infected, that would make it a prime testbed for vaccines.
China does has prisons where they don’t value the life of the inhabitants very much. You can even have a system where prisoners volunteer for the clinical trial and get released earlier as a reward.
In both cases it should be good for the world and there are a lot of political points to be scored. Further down the line it can also allow economic gain through drug development with less red tape.
You might have a situation where countries outside of China can decide whether or not to take a vaccine that was produced through in a process where prisoners were volunteered against their will and thus publicly affirm that they are fine that China does such things with their prisoners or let thousands of people die in their countries while public pressure builds up to accept the Chinese vaccine.
To me that seems like a good position for Xi to be in politically and not a problematic scandal.
There are multiple players that could do this.
The obvious one is China. China can speed up clinical trials without bureaucratic red tape in a way that the US and Europe can’t. Unfortunately, there’s little that our community can do to affect Chinese decision making.
The less obvious is the UK. Politically pulling of the stunt of creating the first effective vaccine against the corona-virus would be very good to show the advantages that the UK has through Brexit that allow it to operate outside of EU red tape.
Dominic Cummings seems to be open to rationalist argument and also powerful enough to push through a policy like this.
China can do it, but for effective testing they need to do it in a region with high level of new infections, but for now they almost stop local transmission.
Yes, with especially with UK’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance saying they want to not reduce spread and have 60% infected, that would make it a prime testbed for vaccines.
China does has prisons where they don’t value the life of the inhabitants very much. You can even have a system where prisoners volunteer for the clinical trial and get released earlier as a reward.
In both cases it should be good for the world and there are a lot of political points to be scored. Further down the line it can also allow economic gain through drug development with less red tape.
This sounds like something that could turn into a scandal where it later turns out prisoners were ‘volunteered’ against their will.
You might have a situation where countries outside of China can decide whether or not to take a vaccine that was produced through in a process where prisoners were volunteered against their will and thus publicly affirm that they are fine that China does such things with their prisoners or let thousands of people die in their countries while public pressure builds up to accept the Chinese vaccine.
To me that seems like a good position for Xi to be in politically and not a problematic scandal.