[GameOfFrowns]

You'd think that with China's cavalier attitude towards intellectual property and trade secrets they would just copy one of the more effective mRNA vaccines and distribute it under the current Sinovax label.

[himinlomax]

There's probably a lot of know how in the form of trade secrets on top of patents. And in any case, merely copying what's in the patents does not help you as far as certifications are concerned, it's almost impossible to get the exact same end product, and who knows how that turns out once injected.

[agumonkey]

There's also the russian vaccine, it seems a little better .. considering the context they could have made a deal to buy some..

In any case there are multiple paths available and so far they seem stuck on the failing one. It's strange.

[chii]

i do wonder how easy/hard it really is to reverse engineer a vaccine - and if it went wrong, some heads will roll. It's not like software piracy, where a perfect copy could be made.

[hutzlibu]

I think the "code" of the vaccines is pretty much open. It is the production line, that is complicated and hard to set up, if you want to achieve some quality vaccines.

[mensetmanusman]

China had an unfortunate event where people were poorly reverse engineering baby formula so they poisoned a bunch of their own kids.

People in China are still posted about that.

[GameOfFrowns]

>i do wonder how easy/hard it really is to reverse engineer a vaccine

I think it's easier to gain this information via hacking and data theft or paying insiders for documents than actually reversing the vaccine.