If and when it is finally released, I do not know the cost of the safe and effective Covid 19 vaccine except that the US has cleared the way for private enterprise and big Pharma to charge whatever they want.

The European Enterprise has 8 billion Euros to make vaccines.
I do not know their profit motives or how the indigent will pay.
There are close to a hundred different labs working independantly around the world.

Who will win the patent war?
All I know is that Jonas Salk did not play the patent game and gave his polio vaccine away for free.

Leave it to keboroxu to find this thread later.