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This is the type of vaccine that can end the pandemic. Cheap to produce, cheap to distribute, old well-understood technology. Also many countries have the capa

This is the type of vaccine that can end the pandemic. Cheap to produce, cheap to distribute, old well-understood technology. Also many countries have the capacity to produce a similar vaccine. For example here is a feel good story from RT about Venezuela buying Russia's similar Sputnik vaccine: https://www.rt.com/news/511063-sputnik-vaccine-venezuela-deal/ https://www.rt.com/news/511063-sputnik-vaccine-venezuela-dea... 10 m. doses to be delivered within 3 months. How long time would it have taken Venezuela to procure a similar amount of mRNA vaccines from Pzifer or Moderna?

cblconfederate 6y ago
> old well-understood technology. While they have been tested in trials for long, all of the adenovirus-based vaccines are new. There is only 1 commercially approved adenovirus vaccine, for rabies in wild animals.
- collyw 6y ago
  That's one more than mRNA vaccines had been approved before the Covid one.
- rplnt 6y ago
  I believe I've read somewhere that US military had been using it for some time. Not sure what for.
- lbeltrame 6y ago
  Also J&J's Ebola vaccine, which is IIRC approved in Europe.
mft_ 6y ago
It is not old understood technology. This approach is nearly as new and novel as the RNA vaccines.