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Is the similiarity of COVID-19 to other coronaviruses also a speed up? We are not starting from complete scratch in that case.
by snarf21 5y ago
Is the similiarity of COVID-19 to other coronaviruses also a speed up? We are not starting from complete scratch in that case.
- lrem 5y agoAren't we? I thought that until SARS the scientific consensus was that coronaviruses are not interesting. And SARS died out too quickly to achieve much. But I might have not paid enough attention.
- addicted 5y agoI’m pretty sure the reason Moderna was able to develop a vaccine so quickly (Feb 2020?) was because they already knew the spike protein to target from the original SARS outbreak.