What was long about it? It only months instead of years, and for mRNA vaccines this whole time was spent on the validation and approval process while the vaccin

What was long about it? It only months instead of years, and for mRNA vaccines this whole time was spent on the validation and approval process while the vaccine design itself took only about ~2 days right after SARS-CoV-2 was sequenced. From https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vac...: > "Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public"