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Any ideas why vaccines for 57 and 68 pandemics were available much quicker than now?
by KptMarchewa 6y ago
Any ideas why vaccines for 57 and 68 pandemics were available much quicker than now?
- nyokodo 6y agoProbably because we already had an influenza vaccine which was developed in the 1940s. We have never had an approved vaccine for a corona virus. Thankfully there has been a lot of work on SARS and new vaccine technology for Ebola and Zika etc that could be applied to SARS-CoV-2 so we didn’t have to start from nothing this time.
- rossdavidh 6y agoWere they? I haven't seen any history on that one way or the other [checks wikipedia]...oh, they were! My guess is that it was because we had an established infrastructure for making influenza vaccines in particular. Even then, the vaccine didn't appear in any quantity until almost the end of 1957, and the influenza was first seen in 1956.