Jan 3: received virus sample; Jan 5: sequenced it; Jan 11: genome released to the world; Jan 13: mRNA vaccine already designed! "We could be heroes, just for one day" #COVID19https://zeynep.substack.com/p/the-pandemic-heroes-who-gave-us-the …
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Hopefully some lessons learned on this forthcoming mass distribution, and we'll keep necessary production reactors, etc. on standby, as seems at least for mRNA and perhaps other future candidates can reuse similar equipment. Hard to do over many years, decades.
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Canada's Connaught Labs was privatized in 1986, & now Canada has no vaccine production capacity. We need Long Now institutions that transcend election cycles: down-streams of planetary societal ecologist role as in Dune. Here a re-framed Governor General might fill the bill?
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