The Gates foundation and such... Man
The federal government owns universities don't they? Here they do
NIH, is that government too isn't it?
The government owns some universities...but not the good ones.
Vanderbilt University was started by the Vanderbilt Family long before the Government ever considered such a notion of funding universities.
Today the Government only provides money for University building expansion...not much else.
The Hospital side is separate but loosely connected with the University.
Doctor and nursing students gotta practice somewhere.
The NIH is a blend of private industry and Government funding that sponsors research into health... usually not medicines or Vaccines but they will when secrecy is not necessary or desired...most investigated new drugs under development are big secrets.
They will research helicobacter pylori bacteria from internal biome but not how to cure it. (Medicines already exist)
Isolating viruses and identifying them is not secret work nor are the results going to ever be secret as they are going into very public journals.
Most of your research scientists are like contract labor...contracted for a period of time to research a nuance in their specific area of expertise.
They do tend to inflate their work's worth... like drug companies do...they say things like their new drug was a landslide, humongous 0.02% better than the placebo...
Which is what I was somewhat expecting out of the current Vaccines.
Actually I was expecting that those who the Vaccines didn't prevent the virus getting them sick to actually die or become hospitalized because they were vaxxed disproportionately to those unvaccinated.
But that didn't happen. It worked exactly like planned...and I was shocked.
