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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by gizmo686 on Saturday March 12, 2022 @12:56AM (#30649296)
We sequenced covid 19 on January 11, 2020. Within 2 days, we have a vaccine. It took 2 months (March 2020) to get that vaccine into humans, and almost an entire year (December 2020) to get an emergency use authorization to use it outside of clinical trials.

Updated vaccines are being looked into, but the original ones still work well enough that there is not the push to expedite the process we saw with the original one. With the virus slowing down to herd immunity, it is likely we won't see another such a push for this pandemic.

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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by foolfoolz on Saturday March 12, 2022 @01:24AM (#30649407)
reminds me code that takes 1 day to write, 1 week to write tests for, and 2 months to release safely
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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by bladegash on Saturday March 12, 2022 @01:44AM (#30649475)
Or even the two lines of code you wrote after researching the problem/solution for a week.
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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday March 12, 2022 @01:47AM (#30649485)
Bottom of the stack rank for you, slacker.
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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by sph on Saturday March 12, 2022 @04:27AM (#30650196)
And a lifetime to maintain.
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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by a-dub on Saturday March 12, 2022 @04:38AM (#30650243)
that entire year was also spent doing process engineering to scale up manufacture and delivery from zero to millions and millions of doses.

my understanding is that going from something in the lab to something that is produced at scale requires significant chemical engineering work, similar to, but likely harder than hardware which is based on parts availability and cost.

all warp speed did was release money and allow process development and testing phases to overlap, is my understanding.

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