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First time in history when the entire world was working on a single problem.

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• zaroth 6y ago
  It took roughly 48 hours to develop the vaccine once China published the genetic sequence. The actual study design was nothing particularly impressive. This was by no means a “entire world” effort. I think the untold story of production and distribution could be interesting, but most of that is yet to be written.
  • chemeng 6y ago
    Agreed, we’ve never produced a vaccine of this type at scale nor managed the required supply chain considerations. Making 10K efficacious non-harmful vaccines for a trial may be much easier than making 100M or 1B. Some processes don’t scale easily.
  • divbzero 6y ago
    > The actual study design was nothing particularly impressive. Now that vaccines can be designed so quickly, I wonder what if anything can be done to speed up the testing of their safety and efficacy.