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Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by fastball on Saturday March 12, 2022 @02:28AM (#30649670)
> The mRNA technologies are great and do accelerate things, but ultimately, the speed of the Covid vaccine development process was more about...

Nope, the Moderna vaccine was designed in 2 days after getting a full DNA sequencing of the virus. Very rapid design is a particular feature of mRNA vaccines (with the caveat that sequencing to find the right proteins is required).

Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by timr on Saturday March 12, 2022 @01:48PM (#30653725)
Yes, as I said, the technology accelerates things somewhat. But to put it in a computer science context, it's like slightly reducing the constant on an O(n^3) algorithm. You're making things faster, sure, but you're not really going to affect the time to create a vaccine.

Said differently: the slow part of creating a vaccine is doing the trials to make sure you have safe and effective target.

Re:Moderna will develop mRNA vaccines for some of the world’... by fastball on Saturday March 12, 2022 @06:25PM (#30656062)
Yes, that was literally the point I made in the first comment. Not sure what we're arguing about.