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In reply to the discussion: Biden to announce 'historic partnership': Merck will help make Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine [View all]BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)This does have more than a slight tinge of the WW2 manufacturing efforts. WW1, for that matter. Did you know that a campaign to conserve steel for the war effort was a major factor in the switch from corsets to bras? Also, the constriction of corsets made them totally unsuitable for the new phenomenon of women in large numbers working in factories.
But I digress.
It unnerved me a little to read that phrase "Merck...tried and failed." It seems unlikely that they just could not manage it, but more that they decided they'd missed the window. Could be dead wrong, of course.
Something for which we really need more information to make a better judgment is the months it's going to take Merck to get up to speed. If you listen to politicians and public health authorities, it sounds to me that the massive vaccination effort will be well on its back end by the time Merck ships a single box. The time frame indicated in this article is at least 5 months, which is pretty concurrent with the level of vaccinations considered to be needed to have curbed this menace.
Is there something I've missed in that timeline? The start of the New Eras in both governance and pandemic eradication have got off to spectacular starts. Is this pace going to outstrip supply in the near future?