Semaglutide, Ozempic, and the end of the Great Stagnation

I am no expert on this weight loss drug, but many people on both the bio side and the VC side are telling me it works.  Might it, or some variant thereof, become the best-selling drug of all time?

Just think that within five years we likely will have come up with good, serious remedies to Covid, to obesity (a major, major public health problem, especially in America), to malaria, and to dengue, vaccines in the latter two cases.  And that is unlikely to be the end of the list.

That is an astonishing record, and we are truly living in a golden age for biomedicine.  Ozempic is further evidence that the great stagnation is over, even though the current world is not mimicking the physical dynamism of say the 1920s.