the old Merck...1987
Roy Vagelos.. Ixxxxxxxxx donor + statin inventor..
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"67:15 we chose France the FDA would not take it because they have no river blindness
the French took it because of French Africa and French people living in Paris with river blindness and so they took it
and to my surprise far faster than ever with a commercially important drug they called and they said we're going to approve it in two days
we had to make a very rapid decision and so we decided in a two-day period and we had a we had a press conference in Washington
we announced that Merck would provide the drug free to anyone anywhere in the world for as long as it was required
and the last I heard which about 2009 Merck was treating at that time something over 90 million patients a year FREE.."
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/342973/EAC23.8-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y