AFAIK, a lot of the research on mRNA vaccines had been done in universities and public research facilities. “(…) the path to mRNA vaccines drew on the work of hundreds of researchers over more than 30 years.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w
@babumenos @ekennedy80 @rbreich Correct, public research is the impetus for most of our advances. The Internet, RNA vaccines, DNA sequencing, etc. Publicly funded research which is then taken and turned into profit generated systems by the corporate welfare state that the USA subsidizes...