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Re:Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants by maxerickson on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:19PM (#25907461)
A big change is that there is vaccine production capacity now, and the new vaccines can go through an approval process like is used for annual flu shots, meaning a new vaccine can start mass production in a few months vs the (very quick) year that it took this time.

A year ago there wasn't much more than experimental capacity to make mRNA vaccines. Now we are at tens of millions of doses a month and scaling up.

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Re:Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants by mlindner on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:28PM (#25908346)
Actually much faster than months. MRNA-based vaccines can be brewed up in days to weeks.
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Re:Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants by maxerickson on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:36PM (#25908436)
The approval of the update adds some time. I guess you can be manufacturing at the start of that.
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Re:Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants by ceejayoz on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:56PM (#25908745)
Updates are likely to be fairly streamlined, though; we already do this for the annual flu shot.
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