Seaman and five other staff members of Oldham Pharmaceutical Group first took a private plane provided by Locke to Miri City in Tema Kingdom, then took a special car from the airport to the seaside, and then took a boat to Fiso Port.
This is the fastest and relatively safest route from Luoba Island to Fiso Port, without having to pass through other areas of Kilili Country. As long as the weather is suitable and the itinerary is arranged in advance, you can set off after breakfast and arrive before dinner.
The apartment buildings in Gaoqiao Town have a very good environment. You can overlook the wetlands from the terrace and are surrounded by lush vegetation. Feso Port is located in the tropics, but it is not as hot as many people imagine, otherwise the southern coast would not be a holiday destination.
resort.
The light rainy season in early winter is certainly not dry, and the day and night temperatures generally remain between 20 and 30 degrees Celsius, which is the best time for Fiso Port. Except for the lack of luxury hotels, Gaoqiao Town, located in the agricultural reclamation area, actually has a better environment than the southern coast.
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As for the manor, the entire Beisuo River Basin is a huge manor.
They were not quarantined for long. They underwent two nucleic acid tests and one serum antibody test within three days, and the results were all good. Interestingly, the blood test results showed that Mr. Seaman had been infected with the latest virus, but had been infected.
cure.
After the quarantine ended, they did not leave Gaoqiao Town. There were no hotels open on the south coast, and they did not want to have too much contact with the locals. They were from two different worlds, so it was best not to have any relations.
Negotiations started from the first day. Huanxiang Industrial was the receptionist for Ximan and others, responsible for arranging the itinerary and ensuring their safety, while the partner was the newly established Fisoport Health Research Center.
The person in charge of the center is a local woman named Cathy, who established this philanthropic health research center after receiving overseas sponsorship.
On the surface, this center has no affiliation with Huanxiang Industrial, but its registered location is in Gaoqiao Town, and it rents the office space of Huanxiang Industrial for free.
It is said that Ms. Cathy successfully persuaded the relevant leaders of Huanxiang Industrial to realize the importance of health research, and thus obtained a donation from the local area, which is free office space.
When Seaman first saw Cathy, he was fascinated by this charming mixed-race beauty, but when he dealt with her later, he felt quite a headache.
Neither Huanxiang Industrial nor the New Alliance came forward directly. Everyone knew what role the Health Research Center played in it, but as soon as the talks started, they developed in an uncontrollable direction.
Oheim Pharmaceutical Group's original plan was that they would provide the vaccine, the new alliance would provide people, and the international hospital would have a dedicated laboratory to provide data, and all the results would be Oheim Pharmaceutical Group's.
It is of course important to verify which vaccine is effective, but it is even more important to discover unknown side effects. Sometimes you can even manipulate the data. For example, for two vaccines with similar effects, you can declare that one of them is more effective, while the other "may exist"
"Unknown side effects" that were not originally present.
This kind of thing is not uncommon, and is often done for commercial or political purposes. The thinking of capital and the thinking of medicine are not consistent.
How to choose between two drugs with similar effects? It will not only look at which one is good and cheap, but whether it can have patent rights, agency rights, whether it can control the production and sales links, and whether the various groups involved can achieve profits and invisibility
Maximization of interests.
For example, anyone can produce a kind of medicine and sell it for only one yuan per copy. The technology of another medicine is in the hands of you or your allies, and you can earn a thousand yuan per copy. You don’t have to think about it. Of course, you have to choose the one that can earn a dollar.
Thousands of dollars.
What to do about that kind of medicine that only costs one yuan? You can find ways to stigmatize it, marginalize it, squeeze it out of the market you control, and even squeeze it out of people's sight.
In fact, most of the time, the benefits that so-called free market competition controlled by capital can bring are only limited to specially written textbooks. What happens in practice is often the above-mentioned examples.
This is also the free choice of capital, and it is also the result of some form of market competition, but it is not what most people imagine. Otherwise, the former Port of Feso would not have deteriorated so much, and there is no hope, because it is already in this world.
the lowest level.
With the development of modern industrial civilization and information technology, various fields have become more and more professional. What ordinary people can grasp is not real information but only public opinion. Behind public opinion there are also the guidance of various interests and tendencies.
Hua Zhenxing participated in the whole process. As the negotiations unfolded, the purpose of Oheim Pharmaceutical Group was also exposed. This is also Hua Zhenxing’s learning and experience of worldly affairs. It depends on what he will grow into after all this.
A kind of person?
The health center's response was beyond Seaman's expectations. Ms. Cathy ignored the O'Haim Group's appeal and directly put forward the cooperation plan that had been prepared.
The health center will not organize people to test the vaccines provided by the Oheim Group, regardless of the channel through which the vaccines are obtained.
Fisoport Health Research Center has its own and clear channels to cooperate with Dongguo's research and development institutions to carry out clinical phase III and clinical phase IV trials of the three vaccines provided by Dongguo.
The new alliance will organize 6,000 volunteers, divided into six control groups, to conduct a large-scale trial and record comprehensive data. The health center gives the Oheim Group the option to participate, including international hospital partners.
Oheim Group can participate in the entire process and share data. They do not need to provide the vaccine. They only need to pay volunteers and part of the trial costs.
There are six thousand volunteers, and the total subsidy fee is 3 million yuan, which is already quite low, with only 500 yuan per person.
This is because the local per capita income is very low. According to incomplete statistics last year, the per capita annual income in Fiso Port was only 200 meters. After the establishment of Huanxiang Industrial this year, the local per capita income should increase significantly, but the improvement and coverage are temporary.
Only partially.
Relatively speaking, the cost of vaccine transportation, storage, testing and organization and coordination is much higher than the volunteer subsidy. The health center is not as big as a lion. The cost of the Oheim Group's full participation and sharing of complete data is only one thousand
Thousands of dollars.
For a mere 10 million yuan, one can participate in the whole process and obtain all the data of the 6,000-person experiment, which is already quite a deal. But Seaman is anxious. This is not the result he wants at all, nor is it the way he wants.
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Seaman's original idea was to spend a sum of money to "buy" the leader of the new alliance and organize a group of people to conduct drug trials in a confidential state, just like the "business" that was often done in the past.
He did not expect it to be such a large scale. The original plan was to have hundreds of people, but thousands of people were overwhelmed. The entire experiment was led by the Oheim Group, and all the data was controlled by them. The new alliance only
You only need to provide people, you don’t need to worry about anything else, you don’t even need to know.
He has no intention of focusing on testing Dongguo's vaccine. If other vaccines are safe and reliable, he even wants to modify the experimental data of Dongguo's vaccine in a way that only they know.
Seaman did not agree with such cooperation. However, Cathy told him that the health center itself would carry out the project regardless of whether the Oheim Group participated or not. The reason why they agreed to participate was because the controller of Huanxiang Industrial was Feng Zibin.
Say hello.
This was different from the result negotiated in Brussels! So Seaman went to find Yang Tehong again. Yang Tehong was not available, so Tang Sen, vice president of Huanxiang Industrial, received him.
Tang Senzhi told Seaman that the plan did not change quickly. Before he came, the local government had reached another vaccine trial cooperation project through the channels of the Dongguo Aid Project Engineering Department. It was an open and formal cooperation.
Out of a humanitarian spirit and taking into account previous commitments, the health center agreed to involve Oheim Pharmaceutical Group and share first-hand data throughout the process.
At the end, Townsend asked O'Haim: "Isn't the purpose of your coming because the epidemic in other countries is out of control, so you need to determine a safe and effective vaccine as soon as possible? Then this project can meet your requirements. If you still have
For other purposes, we may not be able to meet them."
Seaman didn't know what to say and asked directly: "Are you really assured of cooperating with Dongguo? Can you trust their vaccines?"
Tang Senzhi smiled: "I am from Dongguo. Didn't you also come to me for cooperation?"
Seaman: "It's different. This is different. We have the most advanced technology and the best experts. We were the ones leading the entire process of the original plan."
Tang Senzhi: "Does Oheim Group have its own vaccine that has entered the clinical stage? If not, don't say so. You have also seen that there are a large number of Dongguo construction workers here, and Huanxiang Industrial's major projects,
They were all built.
It is precisely because of this relationship that we secured this cooperation opportunity through diplomatic channels.
Dongguk provides clinically proven vaccines, which are given priority to overseas construction aid workers. We have strived to expand the scale and will provide more comprehensive verification data. This is an open and completely formal cooperation."
What Tang Senzhi said is true. It is precisely because there is a Dongguo-aided project here and there will be more engineering cooperation in the future that this opportunity for vaccine cooperation exists.
The ability to openly recruit 6,000 volunteers is a reflection of the New Alliance's organizational and mobilization capabilities. In fact, even if the New Alliance does not organize and mobilize, the more than 1,500 construction aid workers are still willing to take the vaccine provided by Dongguk.
They all have their own information channels, including introductions from relatives and friends. They learned that small-scale vaccination has been organized in Dongguo, and most people who want to get vaccinated still can’t queue up. Of course, the epidemic in Dongguo has been basically controlled, and there is no need for it.
Mass vaccination.
But Seaman cannot have such awareness. His doubts and even opposition to this project are normal. Which country's vaccine to use is also a political choice in a sense.
If Dongguo does not have its own vaccine and the epidemic is out of control, and it needs to choose a brand-new vaccine from another country to carry out large-scale or even universal vaccination, it will definitely be cautious. It is impossible to use it directly, and there must be various precautions.
considerations.
Seaman could not and did not have the authority to make this decision. He had no choice but to emphasize again: "Mr. Tang, this is different from the result of the negotiation between you and Mr. O'Heim in Brussels."
Tang Senzhi smiled and said: "As long as the cooperation plan has not been formally finalized, we can continue to discuss the details. This is what we told Mr. O'Haim at the beginning. If you can't make a decision, you can let Mr. O'Haim come to discuss it in person. It should also be done by