Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast? - by Saloni Dattani

The timeline to develop coronavirus vaccines blew many predictions out of the water.

Something I remember fairly vividly from the first few months of the pandemic was a sense of hopelessness that any effective drug or vaccine would become available anytime soon. Most people didn’t believe it was possible to develop vaccines in the timeframe needed for them to be useful. Some looked at past vaccine timelines, which had averaged roughly 8 to 12 years, and thought this one would be similar. Others thought that, even though it was an emergency situation, it would still take at least a year and a half, or two years, or maybe even four. “The grim truth behind this rosy forecast…

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