mRNA vaccines were not "invented" to beat the pandemic, nor do the current vaccines use technologies invented in 2020. The technology was there, and ready enou

mRNA vaccines were not "invented" to beat the pandemic, nor do the current vaccines use technologies invented in 2020. The technology was there, and ready enough that Moderna even reportedly designed their vaccine in "2 days" in January 2020 after SARS-CoV-2 was fully sequenced.[1] There's a bit more to making a Covid vaccine than cutting off the ~3,000 nucleotides (~10%) that encode the S protein and printing them + packaging them into nanolipid particles, but the rest is mostly a set of known tricks to do things like keeping the mRNA from folding onto itself and increasing its GC-content for easier transcription.[2] The ~11 months between January and December were spent testing and getting approvals, not developing new technologies. [1] https://globalnews.ca/news/7492076/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-technology-how-it-works/ https://globalnews.ca/news/7492076/moderna-coronavirus-vacci... [2] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...