www.zerohedge.com BY TYLER DURDEN
More than $9 billion was pumped into the research and development of Covid-19 vaccines in 2020 – the biggest injection of cash ever raised for a disease’s R&D in such a short space of time.
But what of the other infectious diseases that existed – and killed – long before?
In the chart below, Statista’s Anna Fleck takes a look at what the R&D landscape looked like for the “big three” killers, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, versus the comparatively ‘neglected diseases’, in the first year of the pandemic.
According to research by Policy Cures, malaria was responsible for 627,000 deaths worldwide in 2020, marking a 12 percent increase from the year before.
