One of the front runners in the covid fight is Moderna Pharmaceuticals. Moderna is only a 9 year old company. The covid 19 vaccine will be the first approved product of Moderna. Creating synthetic RNA that bypasses the body’s immune response(to kill it) to perform its function is the work of a Hungarian by the name Katalin Karikó who 30 years ago was so ahead of her time, that her work was deemed inconsequential. She could not receive any grants and was duly demoted, and almost forced into oblivion.
Lets look at some recent African problems.
Covid 19- Vaccine
Moderna - 95% efficacy American/Hungarian
Pfizer/BioNtech - 95% efficacy American/German
Sputnik V - 92% efficacy Russian
Ebola Cure - Inmazeb Regeneron American
In Congo by the way, medication for Ebola is available and free. However, treating the disease is more than medication and personnel.
Pfizer takes the lead but in reality, they are just a name on the American side. Most of the work was done by BioNtech.
You see the trend. The Chinese, even a vaccine for aka homa imewashinda. I cant eat a high speed railway when I am coughing phlegm out of my lungs at Mater Hospital. @mbakuthesupreme claims Chinese are superior Africans. I vehemently disagree. Its only that Africans lack resources.
Didn’t ride them boss. Notice I placed different nationalities on there. Central theme is really about innovation. One thinks he is the best, ok, prove it where it matters. And then, are we benefitting from that.
Who knows what I am? I dont.
in a country of 1Billion people , china has done the impossible and contained the virus…making the vaccine isn’t a priority vile juu the end justifies the means
I have never said that Chinese are better inventors than U.S.A or European countries, and what people like you dont understand is that they dont have to be. China was built by them copying western inventions and not them inventing new ideas and thats what africans need to do, copy western inventions and bring capital to Africa. That is how Africa will build itself like China did in that short time. So to clarify, we africans dont need to be inventors but copiers, but still we have difficult just copying what is already out there.
Chinese have only resently starting inventing their own technology, or more accuretly, improving western technology and making it their own. Even the Shanghai maglev train built in 2002 was built by Germans and not chinese, but today 18 years later the chinese can do it themselves. In terms of corona virus, they have managed to get it in control and those western companies doing the research are private buissnesses and they make evaluations on whether its profitable to research for a vaccine or not and some have decades of history in the drug/medicin invention industry like Pfizer (invented 1849).
Okay but can your own country even manufacture those copies. Aki unaongea juu ya China na kenya bado watu wanatumia gas ya mavi ya watu and they think its development. aibika sana. Enda ukashonde watu wapate mshuto ya kupika githeri
Why are you trying to lecture me? I know about that history about moers etc… But we are here today in 2020 and we need developement and not histories. So lets start copying from jungus like the chinese are doing.
Sorry but kemron was a scam. Saitoti parroted it to the world and was left with major egg on his face and the whole of kenya also fell for it. Same league as lema ayanu/ general mathenge fiasco.
Let not your small prejudices blind you from what the Chinese have managed to achieve in a brief timespan. Focus and learn a bit about being objective.