Knowing about the virus ahead of time wouldn’t help much. By far the most expensive (in time and money) part of a publicly available vaccine is testing it. It i

Knowing about the virus ahead of time wouldn’t help much. By far the most expensive (in time and money) part of a publicly available vaccine is testing it. It is impossible to test a vaccine under any reasonable procedure we have today before the virus is a full blown pandemic. The best case scenario for putting this kind of research into practice is saving two weeks off a months or years long development schedule. It might not even work. Frankly the risk reward trade off here is so laughably bad that I can’t understand why it’s even a debate.