Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’s worst diseases

Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by cm2012 on Saturday March 12, 2022 @01:03AM (#30649317)

Without the initial covid urgency there is an insane red tape beurocracy on new vaccines. It takes 7 years for the average vaccine to be approved and its 90% avoidable busywork.

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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by NickNameNick on Saturday March 12, 2022 @01:28AM (#30649423)

I'm not so sure it's busy-work.

There's a prioritisation issue. There are so many diseases, and many more proposed treatments. Without a good reason to jump the queue there are bound to be delays.

There's also the efficacy testing issue. Your phase 2/phase 3 test subjects are mostly young european males (Uni-students). Without deliberately exposing them, how likely are they (and the control group) get infected? It could take years for a statistically significant number of the control group to catch the disease.

When there's a pandemic on you might hit those numbers in a few weeks.

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