I wrote about the Chinese scientist who kick-started it all by publishing the SARS-CoV-2 sequence in an open repository on January 10th—without waiting for authorization. Two days later, Moderna had the vaccine. Just ten months later, we have a vaccine.https://zeynep.substack.com/p/the-pandemic-heroes-who-gave-us-the …
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Replying to @snarkusmax @zeynep
Nope. Making the vaccine isn't the hard part (given Moderna's tech). The hard part is proving it's safe. Human challenge trials probably would have been a good idea.
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Hmm. Looks like it was 25 days to vaccine manufacturing. They got the sequence finalized in two days. https://www.modernatx.com/modernas-work-potential-vaccine-against-covid-19 …
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They had the first batch manufactured in 25 days. Amazing.
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They had the sequence in two days.
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