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Discussing how soon we may have a vaccine against covid-19, Came Arnold writes of "the stark realisation during the West African Ebola outbreak that Big Pharma could no longer be relied upon to solely underwrite expensive vaccine research". I take umbrage at this. As you have reported, pharmaceutical firms spend a small fraction of their revenue on research and development (for example, 3 )une 2017, p 22).