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In reply to the discussion: Has Anyone Seen this - Is it a Credible Site? [View all]jobendorfer
(508 posts)17. an observation
There is a difference between the statement "We have a model of a candidate vaccine" and the statement "We have a vaccine that has been exhaustively tested for safety and efficacy, and which we can manufacture on a scale of billions of doses."
A really, really, big difference.
What Moderna had on January 13 was a computer model of a vaccine that *might* work and *might* not kill people.
What Moderna has today is a real, tangible, reproducible vaccine with some clinical trials that suggest that it works and that it doesn't kill people who take it.
J.
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The article is exaggerating at LOT, the mRNA were able to be made days after the genetic sequence ..
uponit7771
Dec 2020
#18
no it's not. it actually shows how we've been able to get to a vaccine for distribution so quickly
unblock
Dec 2020
#21
If Covid had been more deadly, testing would have been bypassed & volume manufacturing started
Klaralven
Dec 2020
#19
If 100,000 a week are dying, you'd roll out whatever vaccine you could produce.
Klaralven
Dec 2020
#29