You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public in an act of scientific and humanitarian generosity that resulted in China’s Yong-Zhen Zhang’s being temporarily forced out of his lab. In Massachusetts, the Moderna vaccine design took all of one weekend. It was completed before China had even acknowledged that the disease could be transmitted from human to human, more than a week before the first confirmed coronavirus case in the United States. By the time the first American death was announced a month later, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institutes of Health for the beginning of its Phase I clinical trial. This is — as the country and the world are rightly celebrating — the fastest timeline of development in the history of vaccines. It also means that for the entire span of the pandemic in this country, which has already killed more than 250,000 Americans, we had the tools we needed to prevent it .

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020...ne-design.html


If Donald Trump had had the capacity to read and process data in his head and any kind of work ethic instead of just watching TV all day he could have changed history here, owned the libs on a world historical scale and become a venerated statesman and hero all over the world.

If he'd been in the least curious about how vaccines work and are developed he would have found out abour challenge trials. You literally inject people with the virus to see if vaccines work. This would have speeded up the vaccine trials from almost the year that they took to a few weeks. The medical profession would have hated it because it's unethical but Trump would have loved the controversy. He could have been the guy who got things done while everybody else fannied about.

Could have even had the trials in Brazil or somewhere where it would be foreign peasants taking the risk versus Americans. You can see how the lib-Trump arguments about this would play out. And Trump could, for pennies compared to the trillions spent on lockdown bills have come up with a proven vaccine, vaccinated Americans then vaccinated the world as everybody else sat around. He'd have been a global hero going into the American elections.



Other stuff:

https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/s...82762885120001


https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1379278080439685124