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> The mRNA technologies are great and do accelerate things, but ultimately, the speed of the Covid vaccine development process was more about... Nope, the Mode
by fastball 5y ago
> The mRNA technologies are great and do accelerate things, but ultimately, the speed of the Covid vaccine development process was more about...
Nope, the Moderna vaccine was designed in 2 days after getting a full DNA sequencing of the virus. Very rapid design is a particular feature of mRNA vaccines (with the caveat that sequencing to find the right proteins is required).
- timr 5y agoYes, as I said, the technology accelerates things somewhat. But to put it in a computer science context, it's like slightly reducing the constant on an O(n^3) algorithm. You're making things faster, sure, but you're not really going to affect the time to create a vaccine. Said differently: the slow part of creating a vaccine is doing the trials to make sure you have safe and effective target.
- fastball 5y agoYes, that was literally the point I made in the first comment. Not sure what we're arguing about.