@realDonaldTrump Congress needs to release $20Bn+ in emergency funding for the #COVID2019 outbreak, ASAP. If you want this to be treated, there need to be fast-track review processes tied to government funding into startups. You will see multiples of return on investment.
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That’s insane. I don’t know anyone asking for that much. How would you justify that expense?
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There will be likely be trillions of dollars in economic damage in the US. We are already seeing $1Tn+ damage globally. $20Bn is a sneeze in a hat. You can’t throw money at this problem alone; you must put skilled people in charge of rapid initiatives that push regulation.
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1 Trillion in wealth. I could care less what happens to those with wealth, they’ll be fine. Throwing money at *people* that are demanded to self-quarantine? Maybe. Regardless, this could’ve been avoided with 2B on a pandemic response team. I think 8B is plenty to recover.
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We need capital to be deployed into the startup and private ecosystem for developing expanded vaccine and therapeutic approaches for this and future threats. At-home or drive-by diagnostics tests should be available, however we avoided giving private companies the ability to test
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Waste much? I love startups but now is not the time for money to be allocated for that. Advocate a private investor. Not the federal government.
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The Federal Government absolutely should make capital available for smaller companies given the need for BSL3 facilities and streamlined workflows for vaccine and therapeutic development. Private industry drives discovery and innovation. I am not talking about apps here.
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This funding does exist in the form of SBIRs and grants — and NIH / NIAID does make their facilities available free of cost to companies. The issue is deploying “emergency grant funding” for solving issues around this. There is no explicit budget for
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There is about to be ~8B, that happened this morning.
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you should stop defending the system and start asking if any of this would happen were it not for people desperately fighting to make something happen....
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