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We sequenced covid 19 on January 11, 2020. Within 2 days, we have a vaccine. It took 2 months (March 2020) to get that vaccine into humans, and almost an entir
by gizmo686 5y ago
We sequenced covid 19 on January 11, 2020. Within 2 days, we have a vaccine. It took 2 months (March 2020) to get that vaccine into humans, and almost an entire year (December 2020) to get an emergency use authorization to use it outside of clinical trials.
Updated vaccines are being looked into, but the original ones still work well enough that there is not the push to expedite the process we saw with the original one. With the virus slowing down to herd immunity, it is likely we won't see another such a push for this pandemic.
- foolfoolz 5y agoreminds me code that takes 1 day to write, 1 week to write tests for, and 2 months to release safely
- bladegash 5y agoOr even the two lines of code you wrote after researching the problem/solution for a week.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoBottom of the stack rank for you, slacker.
- sph 5y agoAnd a lifetime to maintain.
- a-dub 5y agothat entire year was also spent doing process engineering to scale up manufacture and delivery from zero to millions and millions of doses. my understanding is that going from something in the lab to something that is produced at scale requires significant chemical engineering work, similar to, but likely harder than hardware which is based on parts availability and cost. all warp speed did was release money and allow process development and testing phases to overlap, is my understanding.