avboiler11
Master
Scientists already knew how coronaviruses "work".
The genome was mapped in January 2020, which means scientists knew exactly what they needed to target on the coronavirus spike protein in order to prevent it from replicating.
A dab of this, a bit of that, and WHAMMO there's your vaccine. The bioNtech (Pfizer) vaccine started trials in late April 2020.
Supercomputers and advanced biological science allow things to happen a bit faster than the time of Salk.
The genome was mapped in January 2020, which means scientists knew exactly what they needed to target on the coronavirus spike protein in order to prevent it from replicating.
A dab of this, a bit of that, and WHAMMO there's your vaccine. The bioNtech (Pfizer) vaccine started trials in late April 2020.
Supercomputers and advanced biological science allow things to happen a bit faster than the time of Salk.