Consider to what end? The Moderna vaccine had been designed by January 13, 2020 [1] -- before a single case was confirmed in the US. It took only a weekend to

Consider to what end? The Moderna vaccine had been designed by January 13, 2020 [1] -- before a single case was confirmed in the US. It took only a weekend to finish. In contrast it took nearly a year to finish testing, and even this was an abbreviated schedule. I haven't seen anything to suggest that the Russian or Chinese vaccines were safer or more effective, or that they could be more easily produced in large numbers. Indeed, according to the data here [2], neither Russia nor China has vaccinated as many of their citizens as has the US. [1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vac... [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/ https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...