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> mRNA vaccines took absolutely no time to design Exactly my point. The most important consideration was to get a vaccine out the door fast. Not spend 4 years
by jussij 6y ago
> mRNA vaccines took absolutely no time to design
Exactly my point. The most important consideration was to get a vaccine out the door fast.
Not spend 4 years 'designing' a vaccine.
I for one am very happy to see that vaccines are now becoming available.
- throwaway294a 6y agoStill it doesn't make sense. Testing other epitopes could have taken very little extra time. In case of mRNA vaccines, just run some trials in parallel. And surely, it's better to hedge your bets. Otherwise, we might end up in the situation were all vaccines are useless as it's easy for strains to evolve countermeasures. That already seems the case of the Oxford vaccine...