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You are conflating raw materials with trained employees. Which brings up another barrier to scaling up production. Raw materials: you need pipettes, chemistry

You are conflating raw materials with trained employees. Which brings up another barrier to scaling up production. Raw materials: you need pipettes, chemistry hoods, etc, lots of specialized manufactured items, in order to build the production pipeline. Where do you get these? What if some of these components are manufactured in China, guess what is on hold? Employees. Vaccine production is high-skilled work. It isn't trainable in just a few weeks even if you have reduced workplace safety standards.

bluGill 7y ago
Only 10-20% of the employees are highly trained. HR, finance, and other management functions are universal. There are a lot of highly trained people doing those other rolls, but they can be shifted back into the role they are trained in. By putting 4x as many random people on the problem you can double the amount of work done, but that is about the max you can get. China is well aware of what is needed, I expect they will let the factories making the needed specialized things run while nothing else does. N95 masks can be made avaiable to thsoe who need them which includes not just medical personal but also manufactures of pipettes. If you make something else stay home.