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Because they were already working on mRNA vaccines for years beforehand, as a pure coincidence - it's a fascinating story on its own. The lab behind it went fro
by gambiting 4y ago
Because they were already working on mRNA vaccines for years beforehand, as a pure coincidence - it's a fascinating story on its own. The lab behind it went from a massively underfunded operation that was making progress against all odds, to suddenly having billions thrown at it to speed up the introduction of their tech at industrial scale.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoIt's not pure coincidence. It means that they have top teams working on the cutting edge and being pretty good at it, and that they have domestic pharma companies able to mass produce those advances quickly, which also means that they are at the cutting edge. And of course it means that, for once at least, the government acted strategically, decisively, and quickly (the government directly intervened so that production would go to a British company, for instance). France did not produce any vaccines. Germany produced one but effectively sold it to the US (Pfizer). Just to point that the UK is not to be written off just yet.
- andyjohnson0 4y ago> Because they were already working on mRNA vaccines for years beforehand The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine uses a viral vector, not mRNA. The Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, which do use mRNA, were developed in Germany and the US respectively.