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The mRNA vaccines were approved back in December and yet six months later they've only made enough doses for a couple hundred million people. What evidence do y
by seoaeu 5y ago
The mRNA vaccines were approved back in December and yet six months later they've only made enough doses for a couple hundred million people. What evidence do you have that a "war time like effort" could have ramped up production wildly faster than what they achieved? It isn't like there are any unused vaccine factories or production machines just lying around, and there'd certainly be no shortage of eager investors fund increasing capacity faster if that was possible
- nojokes 5y agoWar time effort = create new vaccine factories when needed, share the know-how, do what ever necessary. And when did they start to ramp up the production?
- seoaeu 5y agoModerna started ramping up back in August [0], two and a half months after they'd dosed the first stage 1 trial participant [1]. I'm just really not convinced that their scaling up was that bad that they could have done it six months faster. There are real bottlenecks involved, and some extremely specialized equipment. Not to mention that even in WW2, the United States' new naval shipyards took something like 9 months of ramping up before they launched their first ship. [0]: https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-supply-agreement-us-government-initial-100 https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d... [1]: https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-completes-enrollment-phase-2-study-its-mrna-vaccine https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
- nojokes 5y agoAnd they should already have started in spring or before and share the knowledge to others how to make mRNA vaccines.