What Kendra is saying, as I understand, is that the next vaccine, the next product requiring billions of dollars to research & develop, will not exist because we are losing the internationally-incomparable funding mechanism that created it. NIH funds at a scale that no other non-corporate entity can
Canada is taking on the result of one of these funding efforts, yes, but not the mechanism that created it in the first place Talking raw numbers, the US has historically funded science at a scale that no one else has. That’s not American exceptionalism talking, that’s just the quantitative reality
In 2023, the NIH invested $49.17 BILLION in research www.congress.gov/crs-product/... CIHR’s budget was $1 bil in 2023 cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/53962.html You’re repeating the narrative that the same science will happen, just elsewhere It won’t. The international field is losing irreplaceable billions