Recent outbreak of Corona virus all over the world has baffled medical professionals all over the world. The doctors are not able to treat it in age of 512 GB and 60 megapixel smartphones. Neither any treatment nor any vaccine in foresight Why: You reap what you sow: Research into medicine is on back burner all over the world be it USA or China, what to say about our India. While research into defence and missiles is given 1 to 2 percent of GDP, research into fundamental medicine doesn't get anything at all.
Most of the research in medicine is done by multinational pharmaceutical giants or device makers who have interest in your treatment and not your cure. By now we should have been able to treat all diseases and develop vaccines for any new viral strain a a matter of days. But lack of research and lack of national government funding into it is the root cause of this awkward situation…
