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It wasn't a one-off, it has accelerated the development of mRNA vaccines. This is a new type of vaccine that will be applied to other diseases as well.
by wcoenen 6y ago
It wasn't a one-off, it has accelerated the development of mRNA vaccines. This is a new type of vaccine that will be applied to other diseases as well.
- bawolff 6y agoThe article primarily talks about the compressed timeline, not the fact its mRNA. I maintain the timeline is a one-off. The new technology is super exciting though, so lets give the article that. We're hardly so stagnant that a single technological breakthrough is unheard of in the last 50 years and signals an end of stagnancy.
- wcoenen 6y ago> The article primarily talks about the compressed timeline, not the fact its mRNA. I maintain the timeline is a one-off. I feel that you're splitting hairs here. The article mentions both in adjacent paragraphs. And the fact that the vaccine was developed faster was also not a one-off, this is a feature of mRNA vaccines. Future vaccines can be manufactured with the same blueprint by just swapping out the mRNA sequence.
- occamsrazorwit 6y agoHow does developing a vaccine two months faster have a lasting impact on daily life? The best case argument for having a noticeable impact is COVID, and we can't even use that because we split vaccine development into multiple tracks. It's possible that we would've had a traditional vaccine around the same time if we focused more resources on it and less on a novel technique.