If we're playing who was first, BioNTech's mRNA vaccine was ready in the lab in January, right after COVID-19 was sequenced, and went into trials in April/May 2

If we're playing who was first, BioNTech's mRNA vaccine was ready in the lab in January, right after COVID-19 was sequenced, and went into trials in April/May 2020. It's just they had to prove safety and efficacy (which to be clear, are paramount for a new medicine), along with scaling up production, before worldwide distribution. https://impfung.biontech.de/en/impfung/project-lightspeed.html https://impfung.biontech.de/en/impfung/project-lightspeed.ht...