Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials
by SideburnsOfDoom on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:53PM
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> it turns out people have been working on the (mRNA vaccines) technology for decades.
if you mean "Developing mRNA vaccines from nothing to a working product" then yes, that's taken decades.
I don't really think that fact has much to say about if when you're already making millions of doses of commercial mRNA vaccines around the world this year, how fast next year's version can be made, tested, approved, manufactured at scale and deployed. The challenges involved seem to non-overlapping.
"delta- and omicron-specific vaccines" are coming soon, but this is still the very early days on mRNA vaccines, as a commercial mass-scale product.
if you mean "Developing mRNA vaccines from nothing to a working product" then yes, that's taken decades.
I don't really think that fact has much to say about if when you're already making millions of doses of commercial mRNA vaccines around the world this year, how fast next year's version can be made, tested, approved, manufactured at scale and deployed. The challenges involved seem to non-overlapping.
"delta- and omicron-specific vaccines" are coming soon, but this is still the very early days on mRNA vaccines, as a commercial mass-scale product.