| John2290 said: Hopefully someone can get the damn antibody tests and pharma companies should be forced to mass produce them for worldwide production alongside PPE and ventilators. This is one way of a small helping hand out of this, but the time needed... even the best solutions for bridges over either side of this take too much damn time. Are we left at the end of the day to just try and gamble a time out of lockdown and hope the hospitals are up to capacity and the essential work force don't drop dead in a month. Awe, man. This is the worst apocalypse scenario, the slow drop into incremental worsening outcomes with the good outcomes always blocked by time. It'd make for a fantastic Sci-fi novel but yeah, fuck this. There's too many people on the damn planet for an economic depression and there is no way out of it without gambling the whole fucking system on either side of the viruses walls. It's such a cosmic joke that Kenny Rogers died this month. |
As someone who is working at the pharma business I want to explane a few things here to make clear why its not possible to force companies to produce something at once:
- If you want to produce a medicine, you have to show very clear that you are able to produce it without problems. That means you have to produce 3 lots of it without mistakes, have them tested by gouvermental laboratorys and make stable-tests to show that they don't get bad after short times. (Not to mention studys for new meds, lets assume that at your exemple, that is done before.)
- Machines are very different depending on what you are producing. To make an easy example: There are liquida and solida. You can't produce a liqida vaccination on machines that are build for solida tablets.
- Your workers have to be certificated to produce a med on a specific line. This is no 99% work, it is always 100,00%. If you make mistakes, people die. So pharma producers have to make sure that there are no mistakes. You can't chance production line and product from day to day.
