BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year
BioNTech has a lot of potentially groundbreaking mRNA therapies in its pipeline, some of them against various forms of cancer.<p><a href="https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-announces-first-patient-dosed-phase-2-clinical-trial" rel="nofollow">https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...</a><p><a href="https://biontech.de/science/individualized-cancer-medicine" rel="nofollow">https://biontech.de/science/individualized-cancer-medicine</a><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03072-8" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03072-8</a><p>I am really looking forward for such solutions, fuck cancer.<p>That said, the economic impact of such cures isn't clear to me. If your population gains, on average, say, a year or two of life, the pay-as-you go pension systems that are already under strain in greying Europe will come under even bigger strain.<p>So it seems that each discovery like that will be balanced by us working longer. Personally, I as a 42 y.o. in Czechia, do not expect to get any meaningful state pension ever. There will be just too many of us.