- Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, recently revealed to be 94.5% effective, was designed in January (2020) before the global pandemic erupted.
- The months-long design-to-deployment phase could’ve been condensed into weeks if researchers had been regularly and proactively creating and testing vaccines.
- According to Mt Sinai vaccine scientist Florian Krammer, it costs $20-30 million to design and develop vaccines for potential viral strains.
- Given that there are 50-100 viruses from known families that could spark a pandemic, a vaccine could’ve already been waiting for $3 billion.
