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Infectious diseases get far less industry R&D per death than non-communicable ones, because they mostly kill people in countries where a cure pays less.

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capitalism Markets as a system rather than a market: what it is for, what it costs, and what people mean when they say they are retiring from it.

epidemiology How a disease moves through a population, and what modelling it can and cannot settle.

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What Jacob Trefethen actually said

  1. Jacob Trefethen Head of global health R&D at Open Philanthropy
    Infectious diseases as a category receive vastly less R&D spending from industry than non-communicable diseases, per death they cause, because they disproportionately kill people in lower- and middle-income countries where the payoff for making a cure is less lucrative.

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