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One thing that saved an estimated couple of million lives comes to mind.
by cscheid 3y ago
One thing that saved an estimated couple of million lives comes to mind.
- dragontamer 3y agoCOVID19 vaccine was 2021, wasn't it? Just slightly outside the decade. A lot of war-equipment got spun up in 2022 and 2023 extremely quickly, but I don't think people are talking about that. ----------- EDIT: The 2010s through 2020s were a period of incredibly low interest rates and cheap money. Most projects were thinking long-term, for good reason. When interest rates are 0% and you got free money / free borrowing, there's not much point in doing anything quickly. We've got stupendously stupid ideas like MoviePass getting deployed, and bankrupted, within months. Does that count? Presumably we want something that wasn't "just" fast, but also impressive / accomplished something real.
- SamReidHughes 3y agoIt was announced in November 2020.
- jyxent 3y agoI guess it depends what endpoint you are talking about. The actual vaccine was pretty quick, it was the phases of testing that took longer: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/000119312520074867/d884510dex991.htm https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/000119312520...
- rzzzt 3y agoAlso the starting point. IIRC the technology already existed for SARS-CoV-1, but it went on a hiatus before producing a vaccine became necessary.
- JimDabell 3y ago> from the 2010-2020 decade Depends exactly how you define this. If it’s inclusive of 2020, sure. If it isn’t, then it won’t include the COVID vaccines.
- chaxor 3y agoThe vaccine development happened effectively in a weekend. The long period of time to develop isn't related to science, it's the bureaucracy afterwards that took so long. So depends on the definition.
- JimDabell 3y agoIsn’t that partly the point of the linked page? That one of the things contributing to how slow things go these days is that bureaucracy can grind quick developments to a halt?