Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
by simonh on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:51AM
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There are 321 vaccine candidates under development as of September with about 30 in clinical trials. Throughout the year there were probably many, many hundreds or thousands more discarded at early stages of development and evaluation. How would you have selected this particular candidate over all the other possibilities that got dropped?
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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
by swalsh on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:02PM
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I understand your point, I really wan't try to make some kind of moral criticism of the process. I realize it was developed for a reason. My question was more about the point that especially with this new mRNA process, we're going to be able to develop these things blazingly fast. But the process for approvals is still glacier slow (and this was already the SPED UP timeline).
My question was more where is there room to speed this stuff up?