explanade
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My point is that these new methods of developing a vaccine may prove to be the biggest chunk of silver lining to come out of this mess. It has the potential to save a lot more lives in the future, even if it doesn't do that much for CV19 victims.
I don't think this accelerated development schedules is some innovation.
It's more driven by the crisis we're in, with the global economy severely incapacitated by the pandemic.
IOW, if they do research on vaccines for diseases which aren't currently infecting thousands per day and millions per month worldwide, they won't try to push it out within a year.
Now a couple of them are trying to develop mRNA vaccines, which have never been approved before. That research has been going on for years. And from what I gather, the advantage with this new platform is that it's easier to manufacture at scale than inactivated virus vaccines.
But I don't think that the way they're developing these vaccines will become the new normal